Community-Based Conversations About Advance Care Planning Using Patient Navigators (TH321C)

Advance care planning and the older patient.

Making treatment decisions for older people is difficult, because of the complex interplay of their multiple co-morbidities, but also because of the fine balance of risks vs. benefit in any chosen management plan. This becomes even more difficult when they lose the capacity to tell us what they want, and often in such situations we have to rely on information from others in order to make decisi...

Advanced care planning conversations.

Advance Care Planning: Communicating About Matters of Life and Death,

Advance care planning is not about "getting it right".

Community attitudes and knowledge about advance care directives.

BACKGROUND Patients and their physicians are increasingly being encouraged to discuss end-of-life decisions. The purpose of this study was to enhance understanding of the public's attitudes and knowledge about medical decision making and advance care directives. METHODS Eight focus groups of community members discussed their understanding of and attitudes about advance care directives. Transc...