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
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; provides updates on national and international research, policy, and practice and includes contributions from experts from around the world. Death will affect us all; it is the one certainty in life. Yet the subject of death remains something of a taboo, we rarely discuss what our preferences would be at end of life, what we would want, where we would want to be cared for, not even with loved ones.
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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