- 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
Advance Care Planning for the end of life: an overview
Advance Care Planning for the end of life: an overview
- Chapter:
- (p.16) Chapter 2 Advance Care Planning for the end of life: an overview
- Source:
- Advance Care Planning in End of Life Care
- Author(s):
Jane Seymour
Gillian Horne
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter first provides brief introductions and an outline of development of ACP. Then, it surveys the evidence base, providing a selective summary of ACP research. Next, it presents a discussion of the social and cultural challenges with ACP and how ACP facilitates a process of shared decision making. It also cites practice and policy developments to promote ACP in England. ACP developed in the latter half of the twentieth century alongside concerns about the risks of futile and inappropriate use of life prolonging medical technologies. A new perspective has begun to emerge in which emphasis is placed less on leaving an instruction to guide medical care and more on the potential for ACP discussions to help patients and their families prepare for death, review their immediate goals and hopes for the future, and strengthen their relationships.
Keywords: Advance Care Planning, England, medical technology, prolonging life, medical care, death
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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
