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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 +5 more
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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 +10 more
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PLoS 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
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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 +2 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 +5 more
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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 +3 more
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Advance Care Planning Safeguards [PDF]
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2012 To the Editors:—We read with interest the recent article by Dr. Billings.1 In the article, Dr. Billings defines the goal of advance care planning as promoting the autonomy of decisionally incapacitated patients in decision-making about life-sustaining treatment, and cites public fears about restricting life-sustaining treatment as evidence for ...
Sangeeta C, Ahluwalia, Howard S, Gordon
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Advance Care Planning in Spain
Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen, 2023 In the last decade in Spain, an important push has been given to the development of health policies that define the framework of action in the care of people with advanced chronic diseases. Respect for the autonomy of the patient, shared decision-making processes and advance care planning (ACP) are recognized into health plans as a key aspect in ...
Las Marías, Cristina +8 more
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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 +5 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 +2 more
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