Abstract In 2004, Fagerlin and Schneider argued in their article “Enough. The failure of the
living will” that, so far, policies on advance directives had failed to reach their goal …

Advance care planning (ACP) is a process that guarantees the respect of the patient's
values and priorities about his/her future care at the end of life. It consists of multiple …

Advance directives were conceived as a prospective means of empowering patients to direct
their own end-of-life care. Unfortunately, these directives have been inadequately …

Background: Good Medical Practice: A Code of Conduct for Doctors in Australia states that
in caring for patients towards the end of their life, good medical practice involves facilitating …

Objective To explore the health professionals'(HPs) perceptions and experiences of
advance care directives (ACDs) and advance care planning in Australian palliative care …

Advance care planning allows competent patients to record their wishes for treatment they
would or would not want if, at some future time, they are no longer competent. The purpose …

The article focuses on the myths and facts related to health care advanced directives. Topics
discussed include advanced care planning being a process for setting goals and plans with …

How many of us have heard an older person say,'I never thought I'd end up like this?'Or
have you listened to older persons with chronic diseases lament they are tired of living with …

An increasing recognition over the past five decades of the importance of patients' autonomy
and the right to be able to choose to limit medical treatment at the end of life has led to the …

Ihave been thinking a lot recently about the eerily prophetic words of the early 20th century
journalist and satirist, HL Mencken, in the midst of New York's COVID-19 pandemic. 1 As I …