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BMC Palliative Care, 2022 Background The importance of advance care planning for people with dementia has increased during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic. However, family caregivers may have concerns about having conversations regarding advance care planning with their ...
Miharu Nakanishi +4 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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Advance care planning in adults with oral cancer: Multi‐institutional cross‐sectional study
Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, 2021 Purpose Patients undergoing head and neck surgery are often elderly and frail with significant comorbidities. Discussion and documentation of what patients would desire for end‐of‐life care and decision‐making is, therefore, essential for delivering ...
David Forner +6 more
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Advance care planning in Asian culture.
Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2020 Ageing has been recognized as one of the most critically important health-care issues worldwide. It is relevant to Asia, where the increasing number of older populations has drawn attention to the paramount need for health-care investment, particularly ...
Shao-Yi Cheng +6 more
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Palliative Medicine, 2021 Background: Asian healthcare professionals hold that patients’ families play an essential role in advance care planning. Aim: To systematically synthesize evidence regarding Asian patients’ perspectives on advance care planning and their underlying ...
D. Martina +9 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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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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JAMA Internal Medicine, 2021 Importance The burden of end-of-life care for patients with cirrhosis is increasing in the US, and most of these patients, many of whom are not candidates for liver transplant, die in institutions receiving aggressive care.
Arpan A. Patel +9 more
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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 +3 more
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Evaluating the Implementation of the Conversation Starter Kit in Long Term Care
SAGE Open Nursing, 2021 Introduction Advance care planning can improve the quality of life for residents in long-term care homes and reduce stress for families. However, care home staff and families often lack knowledge about advance care planning, making it especially ...
Sharon Kaasalainen RN, PhD +8 more
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