BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Advance care planning (ACP) has shown benefit in some, but
not all, studies. It is important to understand the utility of ACP. We conducted a scoping …

Efforts to promote the completion of advance directives implicitly assume that completion
rates of these documents, which help ensure care consistent with people's preferences in …

Importance Advance care planning improves the receipt of medical care aligned with
patients' values; however, it remains suboptimal among diverse patient populations. To …

Context Advance care planning (ACP) has focused on documenting life-sustaining treatment
preferences in advance directives (ADs). The ADs alone may be insufficient to prepare …

Context We have reconceptualized advance care planning (ACP) as a multistep process
focused on preparing patients with skills needed for communication and in-the-moment …

Background: While there is increasing evidence that Advance Care Planning has the
potential to strengthen patient autonomy and improve quality of care near the end of life, it …

1. Cheung JT, Yu R, Wu Z, Wong SY, Woo J. Geriatric syndromes, multimorbidity, and
disability overlap and increase healthcare use among older Chinese. BMC Geriatr. 2018; 18 …

Older adults with cognitive impairment face many healthcare challenges, chief among them
participating in medical decision‐making about their own health care. Advance care …

Adults who are incapacitated and alone, having no surrogates, may be known as
“unbefriended.” Decision-making for these particularly vulnerable patients is a common and …

As the older population in the United States is becoming more racially and ethnically
diverse, it is important to understand the characteristics, the potential, and the needs of this …