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Prevalence of living wills among older adults in Germany. [PDF]

J Health Monit, 2023
Background: Living wills regulate medical decisions in emergency situations. Those who create a living will can have it registered voluntarily in the Central Register of Lasting Powers of Attorney. Little is known about the general prevalence of living
Wurm S, Spuling SM, Reinhard AK, Ehrlich U.   +3 more
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Awareness, Knowledge, and Acceptance of Living Wills Among Chinese Cancer Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]

Health Care Sci
Background Given the suboptimal quality of end‐of‐life care among patients with cancer in China, promoting living wills is critical in this population.
Hu L, Wang J, Hu D, Liu Y, Han Y, Liu W, Teng F, Ding X, Dai Y, Bao L, Zhang H, Cheng Q, Yang Y, Jiao T, Luo F, Yang Y, Wang Z, Yang X, Yang S.   +18 more
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Perceptions, beliefs, and anticipations regarding living wills among Master's degree nursing students in China: an exploratory qualitative study. [PDF]

BMC Nurs
Steeped in cultural heritage, the Chinese traditionally equate death with misfortune. This deeply rooted belief has led to a low rate of living will signings and poses challenges for implementing death education.
Yan Y, Liu L, Wang Y, Qiang W.
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Legislative recognition and implementation challenges of living wills in China. [PDF]

Philos Ethics Humanit Med
The 2022 revision of China’s Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Medical Regulations marks the nation’s inaugural legislative recognition of “living wills” as legally binding instruments.
Chen L.
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Analysis of middle-aged and older adults' willingness concerning living wills and associated factors. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Objective To investigate the current status of Living Will willingness among middle-aged and older adults in Shenzhen, China, and to systematically identify its associated influencing factors.
Jiang L, Duan Y, Li D.
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Living Wills: One Part of the Advance Care Planning Puzzle. [PDF]

J Am Geriatr Soc, 2019
Historically, the measure of advance care planning (ACP) success was the documentation of living wills (LWs) or advance directive forms. These documents outline individual preferences, often in check-box fashion, for life-sustaining treatments such as ...
David D, McMahan RD, Sudore RL.
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Perspectives concerning living wills in medical staff of a main regional hospital in Japan. [PDF]

J Rural Med, 2015
Objective: Living wills, written types of advanced directives, are now widespread in western countries, but in Japan, their recognition still remains restricted to a small part of the population.
Maeda Y, Shintani S.
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Living wills. [PDF]

J R Soc Med, 2003
Astor R.
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Understanding Living Wills

Economic Quarterly, 2016
The requirement for large financial institutions to file resolution plans, or "living wills," as mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, may mitigate the commitment problem behind TBTF. Analyzing the equilibrium of the game between banks, regulators, and debtholders, is a first step to evaluate the effect of this new policy instrument.
Arantxa Jarque, Kartik Athreya
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Wills, Living Wills and Enduring Powers of Attorney

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1995
Laurence, D.R.
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