living wills

..The "conversation" about future decisions emerged as an important theme, together with an emphasis on the process of "advance care planning" replacing the focus on advance directive forms...

This study examines understanding of living wills by patients, family members, and physicians...

..is given of the current debate on ethics and legal clarification of the range and binding force of so-called living wills demanding interruption of treatment in case of loss of autonomy due to persistent or progressive brain disease...

..Since there is no doubt that advance directives in some form will become legal instruments in the EU countries, it is useful to examine how these have worked out so far in some European countries...

This paper discusses advance directives from the point of view of advanced directives: living wills, enduring power of attorney and combined instruments...

..In order for that potential to be realized, primary care physicians must embrace advance care planning as a part of their professional responsibility to patients...

..The last 20 or more years that they have been utilized in the US may provide experience important for the time when the EU also makes such documents legally binding...

This study investigated Finnish physicians' experiences of decisions concerning living wills and do not resuscitate (DNR) orders and also their views on the role of patients and family members in these decisions.

..Finally, practical recommendations on how to deal with medical advance directives are given...

..To assess the documentation of a do-not-attempt-resuscitation (DNAR) or do-not-hospitalize (DNH) orders in the medical record and to determine factors related to these orders...

..A medical practitioner may also give effect to a patient's living will in which the patient has requested the cessation of treatment. The Act also provides for the options of active voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide...

The assumption on which this article is based is that Living Wills represent possible protection against medical and nursing treatments which are detrimental to one's own well-being in the phases of life in which one is no longer or only ..

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..This paper attempts to answer to the question of whether the advance directives fulfill (and if so, on what basis) the standards established by the concept of competence...

..It concludes with a general discussion of the legal liabilities of negligence and malpractice...

..The purpose of this study was to evaluate racial differences in preference for life-sustaining interventions in the context of various physical and mental health scenarios...

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..It also considers the implications of the failure of the Assisted Suicide Bill to be passed into law...

..with documented do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders, feeding/medication/other treatment (FMT) restrictions, and living wills among nursing facility residents...

..age, gender), enabling factors (e.g. education) and need factors (e.g. health-related factors). We found that living wills had been formulated by 3% of younger people, 10% of older people, and 23% of the relatives of a person who died ..

..Patients with do-not-resuscitate orders may be subject to other therapeutic reductions. In conclusion, patient autonomy should also be respected in the case of do-not-resuscitate orders...

..The objective of this article is to publicize the current legal regulations related to last wills and testaments or last wishes by means of a critical review of the existing legislation...

..on elements of the Mental Capacity Act that may be glossed over when people are concentrating on the issue of living wills (advanced directives)...

This article explains the legality of living wills and clarifies the conditions that make an advance statement valid. The practical application of a living will is explored using examples illustrating the necessary considerations...

The legal status of living wills and advance directives in South African Law will be considered...

..Yet many of our patients continue to cede responsibility to physicians and other health care providers by not completing the documents required to express their desires...

..Advance directives are often thought of as static, binding documents. Recommendations will be offered on how to use these documents as tools to facilitate patient-centered, dynamic decisions...

..This is fundamentally a matter of rights, and requires further investigation and appropriate legal remedies in order to respond to ethical deficiencies in English law as it now stands...

..As such, instructional advanced directives such as living wills and DNR orders represent important patient preferences that must be adhered to in the health care context...

Advance directives, including living wills and durable healthcare powers of attorney, have achieved broad acceptance by the healthcare system in the United States...

..It highlights the need for an improvement in ACP and recommends specific areas for discussion and research...

..He argues that nurses should become more involved in the national and legal debates about living wills and that ethics need to evolve and change along with changes in medical science.

..It also discusses whether the Convention might eventually develop a right to self determination which would include such a right...

..To clarify the practice of withholding the artificial administration of fluids and food from elderly patients with dementia in nursing homes...

This paper analyzes the association between race and the presence of advance care plan documents (living wills, do not resuscitate (DNR) orders, and do not hospitalize (DNH) orders) in nursing home residents...

..However, for doctors participating in assisted suicide, specific requirements of medical due care have to be met. What this means in the context of assisted suicide has recently been elaborated by the Swiss Federal Court of Justice...

..Barriers to completing advance directives by minority populations are discussed and considerations for policy makers are provided...

..such as the necessity to end a 'life unworthy of life', to save medical costs, and obtaining prior consent in 'living wills'...

..To assess the effect of a multicomponent advance care planning intervention directed at nursing home social workers on identification and documentation of preferences for medical treatments and on patient outcomes...

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..Around the world heated debates have broken out on the topic of active euthanasia. Specialists in the field of 'forensic medicine' have taken full part in these discussions...

..To determine the prevalence and content of policies, standardised order forms (SOFs) and patient information leaflets (PILs) pertaining to "not-for-resuscitation" (NFR) orders in Australian public hospitals...

..To examine perspectives of Japanese elderly people on advance directives (ADs) and factors related to positive attitudes toward ADs...

..To describe the development of an innovative, multi-media decision aid for advance care planning...

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..Guidelines recommend discussing advance directives (AD), including living wills and durable powers of attorney, with heart failure patients...

..uncertainty, treatment options, future plans, financial planning, assigning power of attorney, wills and "living wills", driving privileges and the need for eventual driving cessation, available support services, and potential ..

Enduring powers of attorney and advance directives (living wills) are prepared to specifically address the occurrence of age-related legal incompetence or disease-related incapacity...

..The patient who was thought to be hopeless yesterday is given a chance to survive. As in other fields of medicine parallel with their development, several ethical and legal problems arise and wait for solutions...

b>Living wills have a poor record of directing care at the end of life, as a copious literature attests...

..We concluded that the physicians who participated in our study have low sensitivity to living wills (or advance directives) and patients refusing treatment...

..S. chronic-disease deaths occur in nursing homes, yet few studies examine palliative care quality in these settings. This study tests whether racial and/or age-based differences in end-of-life care exist in these institutional settings...

..The vague language of the widely used standard living wills and the lack of physician-patient communication in the process of delivering an advance directives are ..

..e., living wills) to ensure that their wishes about the use of life-sustaining treatment are honored if they should lose the ..

..Existing theoretical models offer an incomplete explanation of end-of-life treatment decisions in haemodialysis patients...

..In this paper, we report the results of the first in-depth survey on the general population concerning the preferences and use of ADs in Japan...

..Use of advance directives is underutilized despite the Patient Self Determination Act of 1990. This study was undertaken to determine use and opinions of advance directives by patients at a multidisciplinary...

..To evaluate physicians' reasoning, considerations and possible difficulties in end-of-life decision-making for patients in European intensive care units (ICUs)...

..We conducted an educational and motivational intervention in Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinics to increase ACP use and proxy and health care provider understanding of patients' preferences and values...

Should advance directives (ADs) such as living wills be employed to direct the care of the severely demented? In considering this question, I focus primarily on the claims of Rebecca Dresser who objects in principle to the use of ADs in ..

..Although Schiavo may not affect advance directive law and policy in palliative medicine immediately, evidence suggests it has already increased interest in creating living wills.

..To study the views of a wide range of representatives from organizations and institutions at the meso and macro level of the health system regarding palliative care in Germany...

..care planning includes the development of realistic goals of care with the patient and family that go beyond living wills and do-not-resuscitate orders...

Advance directives, health care proxies, and living wills are forms of advance planning that permit patients to make decisions regarding their health care and are used when the patient becomes incapacitated...

..principles of the new bioethics, such as an individual's right to privacy of the health-related information, living wills (or advance medical directives), the patient's right to antonomy and to take part in the decision-making ..

..Advance decisions, commonly known as 'living wills', have been proposed as a way of facilitating the maintenance of an individual's autonomy when they become ..

..30, 2007 in Vienna and discussed central questions: The cooperation of Cure and Care and relevant research, principles concerning living wills and the relationship between society and people with dementia.

..IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE: Nurses need to understand how to implement the Patient Self-Determination Act regarding living wills, do not resuscitate orders, euthanasia, and whether or not to use feeding tubes.

..be able to live independently after retirement age, there is a greater focus on end-of-life matters, such as living wills, than on exploring creative long-term care models that promote healthy aging...

..The intervention group's attitude became more favorable towards advance directives, especially living wills (P = 0.024)...

..The goal of this study is to investigate the subjective and emotional experience of surrogates who authorize DNR orders in this setting...

..Advance directives (living wills) have proved to be of limited usefulness in clinical practice...

..the profile of persons who exercise their right to draw up a living will, to analyze physicians' knowledge of living wills and attitudes toward them, and to compare the regulations pertaining to this right in the distinct autonomous ..

..Early and repeated discussions are needed to consider matters such as living wills, do-not-resuscitate orders, and power of attorney...

This article informs nurses of the background and purpose of advance statements (advance directives or living wills), and discusses the legal and ethical issues associated with their use.

..With proper sterilization, meticulous chains of custody, and advance directives for device handling (pacemaker/defibrillator living wills), patients in LMIC who would otherwise lack access to these devices could benefit from their reuse.

..6) that Medicare covers everything that older adults need in terms of their health care; (7) that if older patients had living wills or other kinds of advance directives, it would resolve dilemmas of how aggressively to provide care.

..Nonaccepting attitudes toward planning were associated with a decreased likelihood to have advance care planning documents...

Current regulations regarding living wills need to be revised in order to avoid conflicts between patients or their relatives/surrogates on one side, and physicians on the other...

..The purpose of this study was to compare similarities and differences in the content of state AD documents...

..To help bridge this gap, the authors recommend that physicians not only attend to the technical aspects of patient care, but also determine patient values concerning life-sustaining therapy and counsel patients on prior directives...

..They should be utilized to a greater extent, particularly for the treatment planning of demented patients...

..The final responsibility regarding the medical decisions, however, lies with the doctor in charge. In such cases advance directives or living wills are important and should be taken into consideration.

..This possibility must be necessarily proposed by hospitals. The roles and the missions entrusted to this reliable person do not stop becoming more marked since...

..The LADR is a roster of living wills, which hold the actual records of each donor...

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..This study utilizes a unique cohort of community-dwelling older persons identified as having a terminal illness by objective criteria. ..

..In addition, the research and mentorship programs will utilize and continue to build the interdisciplinary relationships Dr. Fried has established with medical subspecialties, psychiatry, and the Schools of Nursing and Public Health. ..

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..Fried s continued success, Yale offers the resources necessary to ensure Dr. Fried s continued development as an independent investigator. ..

..The project will examine the impact of this generalizable intervention on pain levels, lower extremity performance, functional status, health related quality of life, and utilization. ..

..Dr. Morrison will engage in a number of educational activities in order to enhance his research and statistical analysis skills. ..

..With this award Dr Lewis will be prepared to make significant contributions to cancer prevention and control in the aging U.S. population. ..

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..Joffe's development as a local and national resource in research ethics for the oncology community. ..

..e. social support, mental health status. Secondary aims include learning how a baseline measure of patient spirituality predicts future death attitudes and discussions of advance care planning. ..

..Phase II introduces the videophone as a tool to support patient and family involvement in the IDT meeting. The results of this study will provide preliminary data for a larger multi-phase, multi-site follow-up project. ..

..Finally, public trust in and support for the research enterprise itself requires rigorous attention to the identification and management of adverse events. ..

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..We request funding to support three (3) predoctoral and three (3) postdoctoral trainees in the next project period. ..

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..These data will help shape practice and policy regarding the return of individual results from genomic research. ..

..These data will help shape practice and policy regarding the return of individual results from genomic research. ..

..The findings of this proposal will either reaffirm trust in these trials, or will stimulate the development of enhanced systems of accountability for clinical research ..

..The ACTIVE intervention uses low cost commercially available video technology to enable caregiver/patient participation in hospice interdisciplinary care plan meetings. ..

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..This research is critical to inform the later development of an HIV prevention intervention trial to test the efficacy of an intervention that is culture- and gender-sensitive to this high risk population: Latina SMI. ..

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..In this planning grant, three different patient categories will be examined: 1. Patients with advanced Alzheimer's Disease; 2. Patients of African-American descent; and 3. Recent immigrants. ..

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