The Effect of Educational Intervention regarding Advance Care Planning for Advance Directives

The Effect of Educational Intervention regarding Advance Care Planning for Advance Directives

This study aimed to examine the effects of empowerment and education intervention to promote Advance Care Planning (ACP) for residents in a highly aged and depopulated region. The study utilized a single-group preand post-test design and was conducted in Osakikamijima, Hiroshima, Japan. The researchers and town officials together formed an ACP committee and created an intervention framework. An...

Advance care planning in nursing homes: correlates of capacity and possession of advance directives.

PURPOSE The identification of nursing home residents who can continue to participate in advance care planning about end-of-life care is a critical clinical and bioethical issue. This study uses high quality observational research to identify correlates of advance care planning in nursing homes, including objective measurement of capacity. DESIGN AND METHODS The authors used cross-sectional, c...

Advance directives for truth disclosure.

INTRODUCTION Although most patients wish to be fully informed about bad news such as a diagnosis of cancer, a significant minority prefer no or minimal information. We examined the value of asking patients about their disclosure preferences at the outset of hospitalization. METHODS Consecutive patients admitted to a respiratory and a geriatric unit were asked whether and how they would wish t...

A case for advance directives.

Intervention thresholds: a conceptual frame for advance care planning choices

BACKGROUND Advance care planning (ACP) provides for decisions in the event of decisional incapacity. Determining ahead of time what a person may want is challenging and limits the utility of ACP. We present empirical evidence for a new approach to ACP: the individual's "intervention threshold." The intervention threshold is intuitively understood by clinicians and lay people, but has not been t...