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A DIRECT ADVANCE ON ADVANCE DIRECTIVES [PDF]

Bioethics, 2010
ABSTRACTAdvance directives (ADs), which are also sometimes referred to as ‘living wills’, are statements made by a person that indicate what treatment she should not be given in the event that she is not competent to consent or refuse at the future moment in question.
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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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Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: an interview study with mental health service users and professionals in the Netherlands

BMC Medical Ethics, 2023
Background Self-binding directives (SBDs) are psychiatric advance directives that include the possibility for service users to consent in advance to compulsory care in future mental health crises.
Laura van Melle, Lia van der Ham, Yolande Voskes, Guy Widdershoven, Matthé Scholten   +4 more
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Advance directive: does the GP know and address what the patient wants? Advance directive in primary care

BMC Medical Ethics, 2018
Background Due to the rapid changes in the medical world and the aging population, the need for advanced care planning grows. Despite efforts to make this topic discussed, only a minority of patients discusses the advance directive with their general ...
Guda Scholten, Sofie Bourguignon, Anthony Delanote, Bieke Vermeulen, Geert Van Boxem, Birgitte Schoenmakers   +5 more
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Improving residents’ skills and confidence on advance directive discussion: a quality improvement project

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2019
Background: Advance directives have been established as a legal document that ensures patients’ wishes are followed if/when they cannot make medical decisions for themselves. The concept, advance directive, is rooted in the ethical principle of patient’s
Michael Oriakhi, Charlene Sealy, Abimbola Adenote, Olutoyin Alabi, Meena Ahluwalia   +4 more
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Advance Directives as Support of Autonomy for Persons with Dementia A Pilot Study among Persons with Dementia and Their Informal Caregivers

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, 2017
Background: Advance directives could be an important instrument to support a person’s will once he/she is not able to consent anymore – if composed competently. A survey was conducted to identify the level of knowledge concerning possibilities and limits
Martina Schmidhuber, Sandra Haeupler, Velislava Marinova-Schmidt, Andreas Frewer, Peter L. Kolominsky-Rabas   +4 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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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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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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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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