Advance care planning in end of life care
Lobo, BenContributor
Thomas, KeriContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2011.
Advance care planning is an essential part of the new NHS national programme on end of life care, aiming to improve the chances of 'a good death' by discussing and planning how this might be managed. This book helps readers explore a wide range of issues and practicalities in providing ACP for patients nearing the end of life.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Advance care planning is an essential part of the new NHS national programme on end of life care, aiming to improve the chances of 'a good death' by discussing and planning how this might be managed. This book helps readers explore a wide range of issues and practicalities in providing ACP for patients nearing the end of life.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Overview and introduction to advance care planning / Keri Thomas -- Advance care planning for the end of life: an overview / Jane Seymour -- Listening to the patient's voice / Heidi Macleod, David Oliver, and Don Redding -- Advance care planning for older people / Simon Conroy -- Spiritual aspects of advance care planning / Max Watson -- Advance care planning: politically correct, but ethically sound? / Rob George and Tim Harlow -- Advance care planning for the end of life / Claire Henry and Sheila Joseph -- The implications of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 for advance care planning and decision making / Simon Chapman and Andrew Makin -- Advance decisions to refuse treatment (ADRT) / Ben Lobo -- The tough questions: do not attempt resuscitation discussions / Madeline Bass -- Preferred priorities for care: an advance care planning process / Les Storey and Adrienne Betteley -- Experience of use of advance care planning in care homes / Deborah Holman, Nikki Sawkins, and Jo Hockley -- Advance care planning in the community / Bruce Mason, Dierdra Sives, and Scott A Murray -- Advanced care planning: thinking ahead for parents and children / Angela Thompson -- Advance care planning for people who do not have capacity / Claud Regnard -- Advance directives and advance care planning: the us experience / Anne M Wilkinson -- A common sense guide to improving advance care planning: from theory to practice / Anne M Wilkinson and Joanne Lynn -- Advance care planning in Canada: past experience and current strategies / AnnMarie Nielsen and Sharon Baxter -- The evolution of advance care planning in Australia with a focus on hospital care / William Silvester and Karen M Detering -- Advance care planning discussions in Australia: the development of clinical practice guidelines / Josephine M Clayton -- Living and dying in style: Australia, an example of ACP in action / Eric Fairbank -- Communication skills and advance care planning / Jackie Beavan, Carolyn Fowler, and Sarah Russell -- Working with local commissioners to deliver advanced care planning / Jennifer Stothard.
Advance directives (Medical care)
Right to die
Patient Rights
Patient Care Planning
Comprehensive Health Care
Human Rights
Patient Care Management
Social Control, Formal
Sociology
Health Care Economics and Organizations
Health Services Administration
Social Sciences
Health Care
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Right to Die
Advance Care Planning