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Advance directives or living wills: Reflections of general practitioners and frail care coordinators in a small town in KwaZulu-Natal

open access: yesSouth African Family Practice, 2012
Background: Living wills have long been associated with end-of-life care. This study explored the promotion of living wills by general practitioners (GPs) and frail care nursing coordinators who were directly involved in the care of the elderly in Howick,
A. Bull, B. Mash
doaj   +3 more sources

Letter: Advanced Directives are valuable

open access: yesSouth African Family Practice, 2009
No abstract available.
Ronald F. Ingle
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The Living Wage:An economic geography based explanation for a policy for equality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article examines the theoretical underpinning of living wage campaigns. The article uses evidence, derived from the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey from 2005 to 2008, to examine the extent to which a living wage will address low pay within the ...
Begg   +22 more
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Obstacles and Facilitating Factors in Decision-Making of Elderly Patients’ Living Will in the Chinese Context—A Literature Review

open access: yesRisk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2022
Yanting Zhang,1,* Wenjia Long,2,* Ling Wang,3,* Liu Yang,4 Jun Zhong2,* 1Nursing Department, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan ...
Zhang Y, Long W, Wang L, Yang L, Zhong J
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Constructing Families: Associative Networks in the Seventeenth-century Cases of Mary and Katherine Hampson [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Wills and other evidence related to the married Mary Hampson and her sister-in-law the never married Katherine Hampson place each within associative networks and detail their financial and emotional situations throughout their lives.
Malay, Jessica L.
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inheritance Forgery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Many venerable norms in inheritance law were designed to prevent forgery. Most prominently, since 1837, the Wills Act has required testators to express their last wishes in a signed and witnessed writing.
Horton, David, Weisbord, Reid Kress
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Lessons Learned From a Delayed‐Start Trial of Modafinil for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Freezing of gait (FOG) in people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) is debilitating and has limited treatments. Modafinil modulates beta/gamma band activity in the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), like PPN deep brain stimulation. We therefore tested the hypothesis that Modafinil would improve FOG in PwPD.
Tuhin Virmani   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Living Wills

open access: yes, 2011
Artículo de ...
Huertas, Thomas F., Lastra, Rosa María.
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Perception of Advance Directive in Thai Women with Cancer:A Qualitative Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Advance Directive (AD) is a medical agreement to ensure that patients’ autonomy is respected. In Thailand, there has been Health Act Legislation to promote the use of a living will, a form of AD, since 2007.
Phenwan, Tharin   +2 more
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