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Advance Directives for Refusing Life-Sustaining Treatment in Dementia.

The Hastings center report, 2018
Aid-in-dying laws in the United States have two important restrictions. First, only patients who are terminally ill, defined as having a prognosis of six months or less to live, qualify.
B. Steinbock, P. Menzel
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Advance directives.

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 1998
There is significant confusion about the topic of advance directives (ADs), stimulated by the increasing realization that the current AD instruments probably have little salutary clinical effect. The instruments themselves are almost certainly part of the problem.
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Advance directive repository

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2014
As the population ages, end-of-life care (EOLC) becomes an increasingly pressing issue. Advance directives (ADs) are legal documents that allow individuals to convey their decisions about EOLC. Although ADs have been shown to reduce EOLC costs, most people do not have ADs.
Richard W. Besdine, Adam E.M. Eltorai
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ADVANCING AN ADVANCE DIRECTIVE DEBATE

Bioethics, 2008
ABSTRACTA challenge has recently been levelled against the legal and/or moral legitimacy of some advance directives. It has been argued that in certain cases an advance directive carries no weight in a decision on whether to withhold treatment, since the individual in the debilitating state is not the same person as the person who created the advance ...
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Mandating advance directives

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2013
As the population ages, end-of-life care (EOLC) costs become an increasingly pressing subject. Advance directives (ADs) are legal documents that allow individuals to convey their decisions about EOLC. Although ADs have been shown to reduce EOLC costs, most people do not have ADs.
Richard W. Besdine, Adam E.M. Eltorai
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Delegalizing Advance Directives - Facilitating Advance Care Planning.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2017
Legal formalities impose barriers to creating advance directives. Eliminating legal requirements would allow such documents to be more easily integrated into health care systems and would increase the likelihood of their being used to achieve their ...
J. Rolnick, D. Asch, S. Halpern
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Do Advance Directives Direct?

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2015
Resolution of long-standing debates about the role and impact of advance directives - living wills and powers of attorney for health care - has been hampered by a dearth of appropriate data, in particular data that compare the process and outcomes of end-of-life decision making on behalf of patients with and without advance directives.
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Advance Healthcare Directives: Binding or Informational Value?

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2019
: Advance directives entail a refusal expressed by a still-healthy patient. Three consequences stem from that fact: (a) advance refusal is unspecific, since it is impossible to predict what the patient’s conditions and the risk-benefit ratio may be in ...
G. Montanari Vergallo
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The Evolution of Advance Directives

JAMA, 2011
THERE ARE 2 WIDELY KNOWN PROBLEMS WITH END-OFlife care in the United States. First, care often does not reflect patients’ values and preferences. Second, end-of-life care constitutes a disproportionate amount of health care expenditures. There is a need to improve the value of health care spending because of changing economic and political climates and
Douglas B. White, Robert M. Arnold
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Psychiatric Advance Directives

Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 2003
Psychiatric advance directives are gaining attention as the number of consumers seeking metal health services increases. Even though medical advance directives have existed for years, psychiatric advance directives are in their infancy. The goal of these directives is to increase patient autonomy and decrease coercive treatment.
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