This paper examines the potential for advance directives to be used by people with mental
illness. Also known as a 'living will', an advance directive enables a competent person to …

Advance directives have been championed and debated in the literature, espoused by
patient advocates, and incorporated or proposed in the majority of Canadian provinces and …

An advance directive is a way of making a person's views known if he or she should become
mentally incapable of giving consent to treatment, or making informed choices about …

Medical advance directives for end-of-life decisions at times that patients cannot express
their preferences have become a major trend in recent state and federal legislation. The …

Advance directives for psychiatric care are the subject of debate in a number of Western
societies. By using psychiatric advance directives (or so-called “Ulysses contracts”), it would …

Advance directives have not been used extensively in mental illness. Mental health
legislation in most Anglo-American countries gives considerable power to clinicians to …

I have myself proposed in a previously published paper the greater use of advance
directives for decisions about treatment of mental illness for currently incompetent patients …

Background: Interest in advance directives in mental health care is growing internationally.
There is no clear universal agreement as to what such an advance directive is or how it …

Advance directives or “living wills” are statements by competent adults setting out their
wishes in anticipation of future incapacity to make decisions. The capacity to make …

Advance directives contain wishes and values, fears and refusals of competent lay people
regarding medical interventions in future situations when they might lack communicative and …