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A qualitative study with people with young-onset dementia and their family caregivers on advance care planning: A holistic, flexible, and relational approach is recommended

open access: yesPalliative Medicine, 2022
Background: Broad consensus exists on the relevance of advance care planning in dementia. Although people with young-onset dementia and their family are hypothesized to have distinct needs and preferences in this area, they are hardly ever included in ...
Romy Van Rickstal   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Muslim perspectives on advance care planning: a model for community engagement

open access: yesPalliative Care and Social Practice, 2021
Background: Advance care planning is the process of communicating and documenting a person’s future health care preferences. Despite its importance, knowledge of advance care planning is limited, especially among the Islamic community.
Alya Abbas Heirali   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Caught in a Loop with Advance Care Planning and Advance Directives: How to Move Forward?

open access: yesJournal of Palliative Medicine, 2022
Completion of an advance care planning (ACP) process and/or an advance directive should result in patients receiving the care they desire at the end of life. However, three decades of research have shown that is just not the case.
V. Periyakoil   +5 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

Advance Care Planning in Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Scoping Review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Advance care planning (ACP) is increasingly acknowledged as a key step to enable patients to define their goals/preferences for future medical care, together with their carers and health professionals.
Andrea Giordano   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Advance Care Planning Experiences Among Sexual and Gender Minority People

open access: yesJAMA Network Open, 2022
Key Points Question What are the barriers and facilitators to advance care planning discussions for sexual and gender minority (SGM) people? Findings In this qualitative study of 201 SGM people and 402 non-SGM people, survey participants reported ...
A. Reich   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prospective multicentre cross-sectional audit among older Australians accessing health and residential aged care services: protocol for a national advance care directive prevalence study

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2019
Introduction Advance care planning (ACP), an ongoing communication and planning process, aims to clarify a person’s values and preferences, so these guide decision-making if the person becomes unable to make his or her own decisions. Ideally, ACP results
Karen M Detering   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementing and evaluating online advance care planning training in UK nursing homes during COVID-19: findings from the Necessary Discussions multi-site case study project

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Advance care planning in nursing homes is important to ensure the wishes and preferences of residents are recorded, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
E. Cousins   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Experiences and preferences for advance care planning following a diagnosis of dementia: Findings from a cross-sectional survey of carers.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
BackgroundFuture medical and financial planning is important for persons with dementia given the impact of the disease on capacity for decision making.AimsTo explore from the perspective of carers of persons with dementia: (1) Participation in future ...
Jamie Bryant   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Choosing Life, Not Suffering

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2014
In his 2010 New Yorker piece titled “Letting Go,” Dr. Atul Gawande discusses the case of Sara Thomas Monopoli, a 34-year-old woman with inoperable and metastatic lung cancer.
Mytra Haerizadeh, Dylan Marshall
doaj   +1 more source

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