Assumptions about the universality of ethics and the use of dominant ethical frameworks of
mental health care may obscure the differences and contextual realities in traditional …

Background Advance psychiatric agreements could guide medical teams in providing care
consistent with the incapacitated service user's wishes. However, these types of agreements …

Mental health psychiatric advance directives, advance statements, and similar documents
are designed to convey a person's treatment preferences to their treating clinicians at times …

People with mental illness may be unable to provide critical input about the care they wish to
receive during a psychiatric crisis because of altered mental states. It is therefore imperative …

Indian Journal of Psychiatry 58 (3), Jul-Sep 2016 251 follow comments by the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), a body of independent …

Background: With India enacting the Mental Health Care Act (MHCA; No. 10 of 2017a),
Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADs) have been legalised and have become binding …

Most aged in India are experiencing a highly protracted death in hospitals, entangled in
tubes and machines. Such 'medicalised death'entails huge psychological, social and …

In this article we re-examine the conclusions of our article on advance statements in adult
mental healthcare that was published in 2010 in the light of new literature published in the …

Nell'ultimo ventennio abbiamo assistito a una sempre maggiore attenzione verso i diritti del
malato. Il dibattito in merito al consenso informato ea una nuova ridefinizione della relazione …

Aims: This study aimed to find perspectives on AD in psychiatric practice by different
stakeholders in Kerala, India. Subjects and Methods: A qualitative study using focus group …