- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
-
Chapter 1 Overview and introduction to Advance Care Planning -
Chapter 2 Advance Care Planning for the end of life: an overview -
Chapter 3 Listening to the patient's voice -
Chapter 4 Advance Care Planning for older people -
Chapter 5 Spiritual aspects of Advance Care Planning -
Chapter 6 Advance Care Planning: politically correct, but ethically sound? -
Chapter 7 Advance Care Planning for the end of life -
Chapter 8 The implications of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 for Advance Care Planning and decision making -
Chapter 9 Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment (ADRT) -
Chapter 10 The tough questions: do not attempt resuscitation discussions -
Chapter 11 Preferred priorities for care: an Advance Care Planning process -
Chapter 12 Experience of use of Advance Care Planning in care homes -
Chapter 13 Advance Care Planning in the community -
Chapter 14 ACP in hospice and specialist palliative care -
Chapter 15 Advanced Care Planning: thinking ahead for parents and children -
Chapter 16 Issues around capacity -
Chapter 17 Advance directives and Advance Care Planning: the US experience -
Chapter 18 A common sense guide to improving Advance Care Planning: from theory to practice -
Chapter 19 Advance Care Planning in Canada: past experience and current strategies -
Chapter 20 The evolution of Advance Care Planning in Australia with a focus on hospital care -
Chapter 21 Advance Care Planning discussions in Australia: the development of clinical practice guidelines -
Chapter 22 Living and dying in style: Australia—an example of ACP in action -
Chapter 23 Communication skills and Advance Care Planning -
Chapter 24 Working with local commissioners to deliver Advanced Care Planning -
Appendix 1 Useful websites and resources -
Appendix 2 Aids to communication -
Appendix 3 Guidance and useful ACP tools - Index
Overview and introduction to Advance Care Planning
Overview and introduction to Advance Care Planning
- Chapter:
- (p.3) Chapter 1 Overview and introduction to Advance Care Planning
- Source:
- Advance Care Planning in End of Life Care
- Author(s):
Keri Thomas
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter provides an introduction to Advance Care Planning (ACP). It cites the underlying purpose and principles of ACP, in response to patient need. It reflects on the deeper significance of ACP conversations. Lastly, it presents some hope and expectations, and suggestions for planning ACP in different settings. ACP discussions are important. They are a key means of improving end of life care and of enabling better planning and provision of care in line with the needs and preferences of patients and their carers. The practice of ACP affirms the use of advance statements, in which patients clarify their wishes, needs, and preferences for the kind of care they would like to receive, and the means of leading a fuller life meanwhile. It can also include advance decisions or refusals of specific treatments including cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and the appointment of a person to act as a proxy surrogate.
Keywords: ACP, patient need, life care, cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, patient care, quality of life
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
-
Chapter 1 Overview and introduction to Advance Care Planning -
Chapter 2 Advance Care Planning for the end of life: an overview -
Chapter 3 Listening to the patient's voice -
Chapter 4 Advance Care Planning for older people -
Chapter 5 Spiritual aspects of Advance Care Planning -
Chapter 6 Advance Care Planning: politically correct, but ethically sound? -
Chapter 7 Advance Care Planning for the end of life -
Chapter 8 The implications of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 for Advance Care Planning and decision making -
Chapter 9 Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment (ADRT) -
Chapter 10 The tough questions: do not attempt resuscitation discussions -
Chapter 11 Preferred priorities for care: an Advance Care Planning process -
Chapter 12 Experience of use of Advance Care Planning in care homes -
Chapter 13 Advance Care Planning in the community -
Chapter 14 ACP in hospice and specialist palliative care -
Chapter 15 Advanced Care Planning: thinking ahead for parents and children -
Chapter 16 Issues around capacity -
Chapter 17 Advance directives and Advance Care Planning: the US experience -
Chapter 18 A common sense guide to improving Advance Care Planning: from theory to practice -
Chapter 19 Advance Care Planning in Canada: past experience and current strategies -
Chapter 20 The evolution of Advance Care Planning in Australia with a focus on hospital care -
Chapter 21 Advance Care Planning discussions in Australia: the development of clinical practice guidelines -
Chapter 22 Living and dying in style: Australia—an example of ACP in action -
Chapter 23 Communication skills and Advance Care Planning -
Chapter 24 Working with local commissioners to deliver Advanced Care Planning -
Appendix 1 Useful websites and resources -
Appendix 2 Aids to communication -
Appendix 3 Guidance and useful ACP tools - Index
