Summary: Advance patient directives are various forms of anticipatory medical directives made by competent individuals for the eventuality of future incompetence. They are therefore appropriate instruments for competent patients in the early stage of ...
Background: Advance directive is a contemporary issue because of accentuation of patients' autonomy and the increasing medical progress. But problems arise in drafting an advance directive as well as in realisation of advance directives in institutions. ...
Abstract. Advance Care Planning is a structured and facilitated process that enables patients and their caregivers to think about their attitudes towards life and death and their wishes concerning future health care in the ...
Advance Care Planning in Swiss Nursing Homes: Results of a Focus Group StudyAbstract. Advance Care Planning (ACP) is a standardized consultation process in which patients define their therapy goals for future medical ...
So That My Will May Be Done – Implementation of the Patient’s Will by Means of Advance Care PlanningAbstract. The current developments regarding ACP in Switzerland are an important step towards overcoming the existing ...
CME: Self-Determined Dying: The Challenge of Medical End-of-Life DecisionsAbstract. Modern medical interventions make it possible today to postpone dying. Thus the process of dying confronts with numerous end-of-...
CME/Answers: Self-Determined Dying: The Challenge of Medical End-of-Life DecisionsAbstract. Modern medical interventions make it possible today to postpone dying. Thus the process of dying confronts with numerous ...
Consideration of the Cultural Background as Part of “Spiritual Care”Abstract. Living wills take up central points of End of Life Decisions in terms of content. Ethical principles that enable us to approach such issues are ...