ADVANCE CARE DIRECTIVES FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS

Advance treatment directives for people with severe mental illness.

BACKGROUND An advance directive is a document specifying a person's preferences for treatment, should he or she lose capacity to make such decisions in the future. They have been used in end-of-life settings to direct care but should be well suited to the mental health setting. OBJECTIVES To examine the effects of advance treatment directives for people with severe mental illness. SEARCH ST...

Advance directives for mental health treatment.

Advance directives are designed to establish a person's preferences for treatment if the person becomes incompetent in the future or unable to communicate those preferences to treatment providers. Mental health advance directives are similar to the more commonly used directives for end-of-life medical decisions. A patient must be competent to execute a mental health advance directive, and the d...

Clinical Concerns in Dental Care for Persons with Mental Illness

Planning for Alzheimer's Disease with Mental Health Advance Directives

Mental Health Advance Directives (MHAD) have long been used for life planning in the context of debilitating mental conditions such as dementia and schizophrenia. As early detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease has become increasingly more possible, Professor Brodoff argues in this Article that MHADs can be an extremely effective tool for planning for a future with Alzheimer’s disease. ...

Facilitated psychiatric advance directives: a randomized trial of an intervention to foster advance treatment planning among persons with severe mental illness.

OBJECTIVE Studies show a high potential demand for psychiatric advance directives but low completion rates. The authors conducted a randomized study of a structured, manualized intervention to facilitate completion of psychiatric advance directives. METHOD A total of 469 patients with severe mental illness were randomly assigned to a facilitated psychiatric advance directive session or a cont...