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

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, Elise Mansfield, Emilie Cameron, Rob Sanson-Fisher   +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, Cecilia L. W. Chan, Amy Y. M. Chow   +2 more
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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
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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, 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
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Advance Care Planning: Der Patient entscheidet

, 2020
Das Konzept Advance Care Planning, in Deutschland auch gesundheitliche Vorausplanung genannt, ist weltweit ein Thema, besonders in Situationen am Lebensende. Im Beitrag erhalten Sie wissenswerte Informationen über die Entstehung des Advance Care Planning-
Karzig-Roduner, Isabelle
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Combining top-down and bottom-up change management strategies in implementation of ACP : the My Wishes program in South West Sydney, Australia

, 2011
Attempts to introduce advance care planning (ACP) and make it a part of normal clinical practice present signifi cant challenges and one way of approaching these is to utilise the change management literature.
Johnston, Lynda, Shanley, Christopher (R18606), L. Johnston, A. Walker, Walker, A., C. Shanley   +5 more
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Experiences With Advance Care Planning: Nurses' Perspective

, 2011
The aim of this paper is to report the findings of a case study that explored the phenomenon of advanced care planning and advance care directives in residential care settings in Australia.
Jeong, Sarah Yeun-Sim, Higgins, Isabel, McMillan, Margaret   +2 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
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