Introduction Advance care planning is a means for patients to communicate their wishes,
fears and desires for future health decisions should they lose the ability to consider or …

Objectives How advance care planning (ACP) is conceptualised in Australia including when,
where and how ACP is best initiated, is unclear. It has been suggested that healthcare …

Background Standards for bereavement care propose that support should be matched to
risk and need. However, studies in many countries demonstrate that palliative care services …

Objectives It is important that the outcomes of advance care planning (ACP) conversations
are documented and available at the point of care. Advance care directives (ACDs) are a …

Objectives There are many studies investigating implementation of advance care planning
(ACP) in aged care around the world, but few studies have investigated Australian settings …

Background: Administration of non-beneficial life-sustaining treatments in terminal elderly
patients still occurs due to lack of knowledge of patient's wishes or delayed physician–family …

Background Nurses have a core role in facilitating discussions and enacting decisions about
end-of-life issues for patients in hospitals. Nurses' own knowledge and attitudes may …

Objective To examine the views and experiences of patients and their health care providers
on developing advance care planning (ACP) and advance care directives (ACD); and …

The novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) outbreak has led to rapid and profound
changes in healthcare system delivery and society more broadly. Older adults, and those …

Supported decision-making has been promoted at a policy level and within international
human rights treaties as a way of ensuring that people with disabilities enjoy the right to …