Spiritual Care Advance Directive (SCAD)

Redrafting Ohio's advance directive laws.

Assessing Advance Care Planning: Examining Autonomous Selections in an Advance Directive.

We examined the management of completed advance directives including why participants completed a document, what procedures and values they chose, with whom they held end-of-life conversations, and where they stored their document. Participants elected to complete a SurveyMonkey survey that was made available to individuals who wrote an advance directive through TexasLivingWill.org; 491 individ...

A comparison of state advance directive documents.

PURPOSE Advance directive (AD) documents are based on state-specific statutes and vary in terms of content. These differences can create confusion and inconsistencies resulting in a possible failure to honor the health care wishes of people who execute health care documents for one state and receive health care in another state. The purpose of this study was to compare similarities and differen...

Advance directive and end-of-life care preferences among Chinese nursing home residents in Hong Kong.

OBJECTIVES The objectives of the present study were to describe the knowledge and preferences of Hong Kong Chinese older adults regarding advance directives and end-of-life care decisions, and to investigate the predictors of preferences for advance directive and community end-of-life care in nursing homes. METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey conducted in 140 nursing homes in Hong Kong....

Title Advance directive and end - of - life care preferences amongChinese nursing home residents in Hong Kong

and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. Abstract Objectives: The objectives of the present study were to describe the knowledge and preferences of Hong Kong Chinese older adults regarding advance directives and end-of-life care decisions, and to investigate the predictors of prefe...