Background Advance care planning (ACP) involves important decision making about future
medical needs. The high-volume and disparate nature of ACP research makes it difficult to …

Context The goal of advance care planning (ACP) is to help ensure that the care people
receive during periods of serious illness is consistent with their preferences and values …

ObjectiveTo provide an overview of the current state of research of advance care planning
(ACP), highlighting most studied topics, publication time, quality of studies and reported …

Due to low levels of planned care, older adults of underrepresented communities tend to
experience higher rates of unwanted treatments at end of life (EOL). The purpose of this …

Objective To examine advance care planning (ACP) trends among an increasingly diverse
aging population, we compared informal and formal ACP use by race/ethnicity among US …

This study examined the impact of advance care planning (ACP) on healthcare utilization
among older adults with normal cognition and impaired cognition/dementia. Using datasets …

Background: Patients have reported a broad range of unmet needs in their receipt of clinical
care at the end of life. Therefore, enhancing the quality of end-of-life care through patient …

Background Residents of long-term care homes (LTCH) often experience unnecessary and
non-beneficial hospitalizations and interventions near the end-of-life. Advance care …

As they near the end of life, long term care (LTC) residents often experience unmet needs
and unnecessary hospital transfers, a reflection of suboptimal advance care planning (ACP) …

Using a cross-sectional study, this article addresses end-of-life (EOL) care for older Iranian-
American adults. The purposes are twofold:(a) to explore participants' preferences for home …