This report on end‐of‐life decision‐making in Canada was produced by an international
expert panel and commissioned by the Royal Society of Canada. It consists of five chapters …

Background: an anticipatory decision document records a person's wishes regarding
medical treatment at a time when they have capacity to make choices, to be enacted when …

Objective High-intensity interventions are provided to seriously-ill patients in the last months
of life by medical sub-specialists. This study was undertaken to determine if doctors' age …

Objectives: This study investigated Finnish physicians' experiences of decisions concerning
living wills and do not resuscitate (DNR) orders and also their views on the role of patients …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate Korean attitudes toward advance
directives (ADs) among cancer patients, family caregivers, oncologists, and the general …

Patients suffering from Alzheimer disease and other types of dementia gradually lose their
decision-making capacity. Advance directives have been widely promoted as a means to …

OBJECTIVES: To assess whether older physicians have discussed their preferences for
medical care at the end of life with their physicians, whether they have established an …

jeong sy‐s., higgins i. & mcmillan m.(2011) Experiences with advance care planning: older
people and family members' perspective. International Journal of Older People Nursing6 …

The focus of this article is perceptions of elderly patients and nurses regarding patients'
autonomy in nursing practice. Autonomy is empirically defined as having two components …

Physicians and families need to interact more meaningfully to clarify the values and
preferences at stake in advance care planning. The current use of advance directives fails to …