Prevalence of living wills among older adults in Germany [PDF]
Journal of Health Monitoring, 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.
Susanne Wurm +3 more
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Awareness, Knowledge, and Acceptance of Living Wills Among Chinese Cancer Patients: A Cross‐Sectional Study [PDF]
Health Care ScienceBackground Given the suboptimal quality of end‐of‐life care among patients with cancer in China, promoting living wills is critical in this population.
Longxia Hu +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 NursingBackground 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.
Yishan Yan +3 more
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Analysis of middle-aged and older adults’ willingness concerning living wills and associated factors [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthObjectiveTo 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.MethodsBased on the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Life ...
Linyu Jiang, Yuwan Duan, Daping Li
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Informed consent and living wills: comparative analysis of the legislation in Latin America. [PDF]
Rev Bioet Derecho Perspect Bioet, 2023 Objectives: To describe how informed consent (IC) and living wills (LW) are legally established in Latin American countries in relation to health care and research, and to analyse that from bioethics.
Buedo P +13 more
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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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Legislative recognition and implementation challenges of living wills in China [PDF]
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in MedicineThe 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.
Long Chen
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The living will system in mainland China: legislative status quo, dilemmas and prospects [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthAs the right of patients to make autonomous decisions about life-sustaining treatment has gained wider recognition, many countries have introduced legislation on living wills.
Longmei Tian
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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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The readiness of knowledge, attitude and confidence and associated factors of implementing living wills among healthcare professionals in Shenzhen: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMC Medical EthicsBackground On January 1st, 2023, Shenzhen became the first city to legalize living wills in China. However, less was known about the readiness of healthcare professionals (HCPs) to implement Article 78 of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Medical ...
Yao Tang +4 more
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