Background: Advance care planning is the process of discussing and recording patient
preferences concerning goals of care for patients who may lose capacity or communication …

Advance care planning has been defined as a process of formal decision making that aims
to help patients establish decisions about future care that take effect when they lose …

Background: Advance Care Planning is an iterative process of discussion, decision-making
and documentation about end-of-life care. Advance Care Planning is highly relevant in …

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 …

The aim of this study is to synthesize knowledge about the process of shared decision-
making (SDM) in palliative care. Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsychInfo, Web of Science …

Simple Summary Advanced cancer represents the most common reason for needing
palliative care among older adults worldwide. Unfortunately, older adults face several …

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 Advance directives enable people to describe their preferences for medical
treatment (living will) and/or to appoint a healthcare proxy who may decide on their behalf …

The participation of patients in making decisions about their care is especially important
towards the end of life because palliative care decisions involve extensive uncertainty and …

Context Despite the benefits of advance care planning (ACP), cancer patients rarely engage
in ACP. ACP is a process that parallels health behavior change. This makes the …