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Exploring the Attitudes and Needs of Advance Care Planning Practice Among the Working Generation

open access: yesTokyo Women's Medical University Journal, 2022
Background: This study explores the working generation's attitudes and needs regarding advance care planning and the factors associated with its practice.
Takako Iwasaki   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A meta-synthesis on the older adults' perspective of advance care planning.

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Nursing, 2023
AIM To synthesise the evidence regarding older adults' perception of advance care planning in preparation for end-of-life care. BACKGROUND Advance care planning involves continuous communication of end-of-life care goals involving an individual's ...
Jianzhong Tang   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Thailand's experience in Advance Care Planning.

open access: yesZeitschrift fur Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualitat im Gesundheitswesen, 2023
In 2007, Thailand enacted the National Health Act, which contains the Advance Directive (Section 12). Even though the Act was enacted nearly sixteen years ago, physicians have not fully adopted it, limiting the number of patients who can benefit from the
S. Pairojkul   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The role of acculturation in the process of advance care planning among Chinese immigrants: A narrative systematic review

open access: yesPalliative Medicine, 2023
Background: Acculturation is the process of two different cultures coming into contact. It is unclear how acculturation influences Chinese immigrants’ engagement in advance care planning due to the complexity and multifaceted nature of both acculturation
Tingting Zhu   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Advance care planning in primary care [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 2006
O f the various trajectories of physical decline, organ failure is often the most difficult to plan for in advance because of its unpredictability.1 The qualitative study by Davison and Simpson in this week's BMJ challenges the notion that early discussion of planning for the end of life will destroy hope rather than create it.
Murray, S. A, Sheikh, A., Thomas, K.
openaire   +3 more sources

Perinatal Palliative Care Birth Planning as Advance Care Planning

open access: yesFrontiers in Pediatrics, 2020
Purpose of Review: A significant number of pregnancies are complicated by a fetus with a life-limiting diagnosis. As diagnoses are made earlier in the pregnancy, families experience anticipatory grief and are faced with navigating goals of care for a ...
DonnaMaria E. Cortezzo   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

What is the evidence for efficacy of advance care planning in improving patient outcomes? A systematic review of randomised controlled trials

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2022
Objectives To conduct an up-to-date systematic review of all randomised controlled trials assessing efficacy of advance care planning (ACP) in improving patient outcomes, healthcare use/costs and documentation.
Chetna Malhotra   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Advance Care Planning in the Elderly [PDF]

open access: yesMedical Clinics of North America, 2015
Key components of advance care planning (ACP) for the elderly include choosing a surrogate decision maker, identifying personal values, communicating with surrogates and clinicians, documenting wishes in advance directives, and translating values and preferences for future medical care into medical orders.
Lum, Hillary D   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Family involvement in advance care planning for people living with advanced cancer: A systematic mixed-methods review

open access: yesPalliative Medicine, 2022
Background: Advance care planning is important for people with advanced cancer. Family involvement in advance care planning may be instrumental to achieving goal-concordant care since they frequently become surrogate decision-makers.
Megumi Kishino   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How to increase public participation in advance care planning: findings from a World Café to elicit community group perspectives

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2019
Background In 2014, Alberta, Canada broke new ground in having the first provincial healthcare policy and procedure for advance care planning (ACP), the process of communicating and documenting a person’s future healthcare preferences.
Patricia D. Biondo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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