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Advance Directives and Research Advance Directives

Voices in Bioethics, 2021
Photo by Matteo Vistocco on Unsplash ABSTRACT This paper explores a way to ensure a person’s autonomy and legacy are preserved during the experience of dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease. Due to the profound effect the disease has on memory, the “person of the lifetime” (the person’s past experiences and their future aspirations prior to disease ...
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Associations of health literacy, personality traits, and pro-individualism with the willingness to complete advance directives in Taiwan

BMC Palliative Care, 2023
Background Studies indicated that patients with advance directives (ADs) have a generally better quality of life near death. Yet, the concept of ADs is relatively new in East Asian countries.
Duan-Rung Chen, Hui-Ching Weng
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Advance directives in Austrian intensive care units: An analysis of prevalence and barriers

Resuscitation Plus, 2020
Purpose: To investigate the prevalence of advance directives, healthcare proxies, and legal representatives in Austrian intensive care units (ICUs), and to explore barriers faced by adults engaged in the contemplation and documentation phase of the ...
Markus Köstenberger, Svenja Diegelmann, Ralf Terlutter, Sonja Bidmon, Stefan Neuwersch, Rudolf Likar   +5 more
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Project DECIDE, part 1: increasing the amount of valid advance directives in people with Alzheimer’s disease by offering advance care planning—a prospective double-arm intervention study

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background Everybody has the right to decide whether to receive specific medical treatment or not and to provide their free, prior and informed consent to do so.
Stefanie Baisch, Christina Abele, Anna Theile-Schürholz, Irene Schmidtmann, Frank Oswald, Tarik Karakaya, Tanja Müller, Janina Florack, Daniel Garmann, Jonas Karneboge, Gregor Lindl, Nathalie Pfeiffer, Aoife Poth, Bogdan Alin Caba, Martin Grond, Ingmar Hornke, David Prvulovic, Andreas Reif, Heiko Ullrich, Julia Haberstroh   +19 more
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Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background Huntington’s disease (HD) has a poor prognosis. For HD patients in the Netherlands, one way of dealing with their poor prognosis is by drawing up an advance euthanasia directive (AED).
Marina R. Ekkel, Marja F.I.A. Depla, Els M.L. Verschuur, Ruth B. Veenhuizen, Cees M.P.M. Hertogh, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen   +5 more
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Pregnancy Clauses

Voices in Bioethics, 2021
Photo by Anna Hecker on Unsplash ABSTRACT All people deserve the legal ability to outline their care decisions in advance and expect their decisions to govern during a pregnancy. However, until advance directives govern without pregnancy exceptions,
Gianna Strand
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Advance directive and end-of-life care preferences among Chinese nursing home residents in Hong Kong [PDF]

, 2011
OBJECTIVES: The objectives of the present study were to describe the knowledge and preferences of Hong Kong Chinese older adults regarding advance directives and end-of-life care decisions, and to investigate the predictors of preferences for advance ...
Chu, LW, Kwan, SM, Chan, CSY, Luk, JKH, Chiu, PKC, Kwok, T, Lee, D, Hui, E, Woo, J   +8 more
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Characteristics associated with having an advance care directive (N = 159).

, 2023
Characteristics associated with having an advance care directive (N = 159).
Rob Sanson-Fisher (533340), Emilie Cameron (3721717), Jamie Bryant (671861), Elise Mansfield (2563249)   +3 more
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ADVANCE DIRECTIVES IN ROMANIA AND LITHUANIA

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2019
Advance directives, a set of written instructions that a person gives that specify what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacity, are a well-implemented tool in America, but few ...
Ştefana Maria MOISĂ, Angela Mariana ENACHE, Andrada PÂRVU, Silvia DUMITRAȘ, Rodica GRAMMA, Gabriel ROMAN, Beatrice IOAN   +6 more
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Advance directives among cognitively impaired persons who had an amyloid PET scan and their care partners: a mixed-methods study

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background Little research exists on the role of β-amyloid PET scans as part of Alzheimer’s diagnostic tests and documentation of end-of-life preferences for persons with cognitive impairment.
Emmanuelle Bélanger, Elyse Couch, Michaela S. Carroll, Nicole DePasquale, Emily A. Gadbois, Megan Shepherd-Banigan, Eric Jutkowitz, Courtney H. Van Houtven, Brenda L. Plassman, Terrie T. Wetle   +9 more
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