Living Wills: One Part of the Advance Care Planning Puzzle
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DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15688
Abstract: 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 cardiopulmonary… read more here.
Keywords: advance; care planning; living wills; care ... See more keywords
When Living Wills go Missing: Associations With Hospice Use and Hospital Death Using National Longitudinal Data
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DOI: 10.1177/07334648221146774
Abstract: Despite documented benefits of advance care planning (ACP), understandings about the impact of advance directives (AD)—critical steps in the ACP process—remain limited. As a type of AD, living wills (LWs) are often misplaced or forgotten… read more here.
Keywords: wills missing; hospital death; living wills; hospice ... See more keywords
Obstacles and Facilitating Factors in Decision-Making of Elderly Patients’ Living Will in the Chinese Context—A Literature Review
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DOI: 10.2147/rmhp.s386488
Abstract: Background The living will provide patients at the end of life with the autonomy to choose medical care, so that the patients at the end of life can get dignified and die. In many countries… read more here.
Keywords: elderly patients; factors decision; living wills; decision making ... See more keywords