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'A perfect storm' or missed care? Focus group interviews with dementia care professionals on Advance Care Planning

BMC Geriatrics, 2023
Background Dementia is one of the leading causes of dependency and disability among older people and currently the seventh leading cause of death among all diseases.
Annika Tetrault, Maj-Helen Nyback, Lisbeth Fagerström, Heli Vaartio-Rajalin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social workers’ involvement in advance care planning: a systematic narrative review

BMC Palliative Care, 2017
Background Advance care planning is a process of discussion that enables competent adults to express their wishes about end-of-life care through periods of decisional incapacity.
Chong-Wen Wang, Cecilia L. W. Chan, Amy Y. M. Chow   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Efficacy of Normalisation of Advance Care Planning (NACP) for people with chronic diseases in hospital and community settings: a quasi-experimental study

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Advance Care Planning (ACP) has emerged to improve end-of-life processes and experiences. However, the available evidence presents the gloomy picture of increasing number of older people living with chronic diseases and the mismatch between ...
Sarah Jeong, Peter Cleasby, Se Ok Ohr, Tomiko Barrett, Ryan Davey, Christopher Oldmeadow   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advance care planning in 21st century Australia: a systematic review and appraisal of online advance care directive templates against national framework criteria [PDF]

, 2015
Objectives A drive to promote advance care planning at a population level has led to a proliferation of online advance care directive (ACD) templates but little information to guide consumer choice.
Agar, M, Bhattarai, P, Currow, D, Davidson, P, Krastev, Y, Luckett, T, Phillips, J   +6 more
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Why have Advance Directives failed in Spain?

BMC Medical Ethics, 2020
Background In Spain, there has been great effort by lawmakers to put Advance Directives (ADs) into practice since 2002. At the same time, the field of bioethics has been on the rise, a discipline that has spurred debate on the right of patients to ...
Benjamín Herreros, María Benito, Pablo Gella, Emanuele Valenti, Beatriz Sánchez, Tayra Velasco   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Junior Medical Officers’ knowledge of advance care directives and substitute decision making for people without decision making capacity: a cross sectional survey

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background For the benefits of advance care planning to be realised during a hospital admission, the treating team must have accurate knowledge of the law pertaining to implementation of advance care directives (ACDs) and substitute decision making. Aims
Jamie Bryant, Amy Waller, Alison Bowman, Robert Pickles, Carolyn Hullick, Emma Price, Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Anne Knight, Mary-Ann Ryall, Rob Sanson-Fisher   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Healthcare decision-making: past present and future, in light of a diagnosis of dementia [PDF]

, 2017
End-of-life care policy in the UK states that all people should identify their needs, priorities and preferences for end-of-life care in the form of advance care planning.
Dening, KH, Jones, L, King, M, Sampson, EL   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Development and Validation of a Scale for the End of Life Caregiving Appraisal

Asian Nursing Research, 2010
End-of-life caregiving experiences can be complex. Family members experience physical and mental suffering as they anticipate their impending loss. Healthcare providers should be able to provide good quality of end-of-life (EOL) care and support for ...
JuHee Lee, PhD, RN, Ji-Soo Yoo, PhD, RN, Tae-Hee Kim, RN, MSN, Jeong-In Jeong, RN, MSN, Soo-Jung Chang, RN, MSN, Dukyoo Jung, PhD, RN   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

End of life care: The experiences of advance care planning amongst family caregivers of people with advanced dementia - A qualitative study [PDF]

, 2014
Background: End of life decisions for people with advanced dementia are reported as often being difficult for families as they attempt to make appropriate and justified decisions.
Addicott R., Barbara Jack, Bernard H. R., Bob McClelland, Brenda Roe, Caron C. D., Cresswell J. W., Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Gott M., Joffe H., Kumar C. T. S., Lawton J., Lincoln Y. S., Lindstrom K. B., National Audit Office, Patton M. Q., Phillips J., Polit D. F., Poppe M., Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Sampson E. L., Silverman D., Silverman D., Susan Elizabeth Ashton, World Health Organisation, World Health Organisation, Yin R. K.   +28 more
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Positive attitudes to advance care planning – a Norwegian general population survey

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Authorities recommend advance care planning and public acceptance of it is a prerequisite for widespread implementation. Therefore, we did the first study of the Norwegian public with an aim of getting knowledge on their attitudes to issues ...
Trygve Johannes L. Sævareid, Reidar Pedersen, Morten Magelssen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source