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Advance Care Planning in End of Life Care

Keri Thomas, Ben Lobo, and Karen Detering

Abstract

Advance Care Planning (ACP) is an essential part of quality end of life care in the UK and in most developed countries, enabling more people to live well and die well as they would choose. In the context of the ageing population, with increasing possibilities for medical interventions, ACP is an crucial consideration, with important implications for the individual person and their family and for our wider population. This book takes a comprehensive look at the subject, helps readers explore a wide range of issues and practicalities in providing ACP; frames the purpose, process, and outcomes; p ... More

Keywords: advance care planning, ageing population, end of life, international research, wider population

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2017 Print ISBN-13: 9780198802136
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2018 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198802136.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Keri Thomas, editor
Founder and National Clinical Lead, Gold Standards Framework Centre in End of Life Care

Ben Lobo, editor
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Nottinghamshire

Karen Detering, editor
Respiratory Physician, Respecting Patient Choices Program, Austin Hospital Melbourne, Australia

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Foreword

Preface to Second Edition

Contributors

Abbreviations

Section 1 Introduction to advance care planning

Chapter 1 Overview and introduction to advance care planning

Keri Thomas

Chapter 2 What are the benefits of advance care planning and how do we know?

Sarah Russell and Karen Detering

Chapter 3 An introduction to advance care planning: practice at the frontline

Anjali Mullick and Jonathan Martin

Chapter 4 Person-centred care

Josie Dixon

Chapter 5 Advance care planning for an ageing population

Martin J. Vernon

Chapter 6 Spiritual and ethical aspects of advance care planning

Max Watson and Mark Thomas

Chapter 7 Advance care planning: a personal view and stories from the frontline

Tony Bonser

Section 2 Context and experience of advance care planning in the UK

Chapter 8 Advance care planning in the UK: update on policy and practice

Claire Henry and Keri Thomas

Chapter 9 Advance decisions to refuse treatment and the impact of wider legislation

Ben Lobo

Chapter 10 Discussions and decisions about cardiopulmonary resuscitation

David Pitcher

Chapter 11 The implications of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 for advance care planning and decision making

Simon Chapman and Ben Lobo

Chapter 12 Experience of use of advance care planning in care homes

Maggie Stobbart-Rowlands and Mandy Thorn

Chapter 13 Advance care planning in the community

Peter Nightingale, Scott Murray, and Chris Absolon

Chapter 14 Advance care planning in hospices and palliative care

Sarah Russell and Simon Noble

Chapter 15 Advance care planning in hospitals

Clare Marlow, Karen Groves, and Premila Fade

Chapter 16 Advanced care planning: thinking ahead for parents, carers, children, and young people

Angela Thompson

Chapter 17 Advance care planning and people with dementia

Karen Harrison Dening

Section 3 Experience of advance care planning internationally

Chapter 18 Advance care planning in Australia

Karen Detering and Josephine Clayton

Chapter 19 Advance care planning in Canada

Doris Barwich, John You, Jessica Simon, Louise Hanvey, and Cari Borenko Hoffmann

Chapter 20 Advance directives and advance care planning

Maria J. Silveira and Phillip Rodgers

Chapter 21 Advance care planning in New Zealand: our Voice—tō tātou reo

Leigh Manson and Shona Muir

Chapter 22 Advance care planning in Germany: on track for nationwide implementation

Georg Marckmann, Kornelia Götze, and Jürgen in der Schmitten

Chapter 23 Advance care planning in an Asian country

Irwin Clement, Alphonsus Wai, and Hoong Chung

Section 4 Practicalities and areas of common ground

Chapter 24 Communication skills and advance care planning

Sarah Russell

Chapter 25 Advance care planning in chronic disease: finding the known in the midst of the unknown

Karen Detering, Elizabeth Sutton, and Scott Fraser

Chapter 26 Planning ahead in all areas

Nigel Mathers and Craig Sinclair

Chapter 27 A population-based approach to end of life care and advance care planning

Rammya Mathew, Muir Gray, and Keri Thomas

End Matter

Appendix Useful websites and resources

Index