Background: Asian healthcare professionals hold that patients' families play an essential
role in advance care planning. Aim: To systematically synthesize evidence regarding Asian …

Background Older people in long-term care facilities face clinical uncertainty and
unpredictable decline. Advance care planning enables older people to identify preferences …

Persons with dementia are at high risk for loss of decision-making ability due to increased
cognitive decline as the disease progresses. Participation in advance care planning (ACP) …

Objectives To explore advance directive (AD) preferences and the facilitators and barriers of
promoting ADs among terminally ill older patients in China. Design A scoping review was …

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between health literacy and
hospice knowledge, attitude and decision in community‐dwelling elderly participants. This …

Context Despite the expansion of palliative care (PC) services, the public has little
knowledge and holds misperceptions about PC, creating barriers to accessing timely …

This study aimed to expand on previous research elucidating the effects of dispositional
resilience and self-efficacy on practice in advanced care planning (ACP) of terminally ill …

Objective The aim is to integrate quantitative and qualitative evidence to understand the
effectiveness and experience of advance care planning (ACP) for frail elderly. Design A …

Background When older nursing home residents and their families are faced with end-of-life
care decisions in Taiwan, they make them in the context of traditional cultural norms and …

Advance care planning (ACP) has the potential to improve the outcomes of end-of-life care
for residents in nursing homes. The aim of this study was to determine whether an ACP …