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 …

Ageing has been recognized as one of the most critically important health-care issues
worldwide. It is relevant to Asia, where the increasing number of older populations has …

Advance care planning (ACP), involving discussions between patients, families and
healthcare professionals on future healthcare decisions, in advance of anticipated …

Advance care planning (ACP) allows individuals to specify in advance how they want to be
treated should serious illness prevent them from being able to make decisions or …

Background Achieving choice is proposed as a quality marker. But little is known about what
influences preferences especially among older adults. We aimed to determine and compare …

Objectives There is growing evidence of the potential effectiveness of advance care
planning. Yet important knowledge gaps remain regarding the preconditions for successful …

Abstract Context Advance directives (ADs) are expected to improve patients' end-of-life
outcomes, but retrospective analyses, surrogate recall of patients' preferences, and selection …

Importance Advance care planning (ACP) may prevent end-of-life (EOL) care that is
nonbeneficial and discordant with patient wishes. Despite long-standing recognition of the …

In 2016 fee-for-service Medicare began reimbursing physicians for advance care planning
conversations with enrollees during outpatient visits and waived the copayment for advance …

Importance Advance care planning (ACP), especially among vulnerable older adults,
remains underused in primary care. Additionally, many ACP initiatives fail to integrate …