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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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British medical journal, 2010 Objective To investigate the impact of advance care planning on end of life care in elderly patients. Design Prospective randomised controlled trial. Setting Single centre study in a university hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
K. Detering +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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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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"Don't talk to them about goals of care": Understanding disparities in advance care planning.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2021 BACKGROUND Structurally marginalized groups experience disproportionately low rates of advance care planning (ACP). To improve equitable patient-centered end-of-life care, we examine barriers and facilitators to ACP among clinicians as they are central ...
D. Ashana +9 more
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Advance Care Planning in the Elderly [PDF]
Medical 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
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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 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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Prevalence, content and significance of advance care planning in nursing home patients
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2022 Objective Studies on advance care planning in nursing homes are rare, and despite their demonstrated favourable effects on end-of-life care, advance care plans are often lacking.
L. Kastbom +4 more
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