A Family-Oriented Confucian Approach to Advance Directives in End-of-Life Decision Making for Incompetent Elderly Patients

2015 ◽  
pp. 257-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaning Yang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Elderly Patients ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Advance Directives ◽  
End Of Life Decision ◽  
Life Decision

End-of-Life Decision-Making

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad D. Kollas ◽  
Beth Boyer Kollas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Elderly Patients ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Legal Reasoning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Decision ◽  
The Right ◽  
End Of Life Decision ◽  
Life Decision

Growth in the size and wealth of the United States’ elderly population, coupled with a trend toward increasing patient autonomy, has created an environment for increased conflict in end-of-life decision-making. This chapter explores the required elements for making decisions at the end of life, including determination of medical decision-making capacity. Also discussed is the development of the legal reasoning that governs situations involving elderly patients who lack the capacity, but retain the right, to make medical decisions. The chapter describes the utility of the advance care planning process, by which elderly patients can make their preferences for medical treatment known in advance of conditions or illness that could result in cognitive impairment that would otherwise hamper their ability to participate personally in end-of-life decisions. Finally, a variety of forms of advance directives are described, critical tools in honoring the medical autonomy of elderly patients.

Advance Directives and End-of-Life Decision Making

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Scherer ◽  
Mary Ann Jezewski ◽  
Brian Graves ◽  
Yow-Wu Bill Wu ◽  
Xiaoyan Bu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Advance Directives ◽  
End Of Life Decision ◽  
Life Decision

scholarly journals Design of the Advance Directives Cohort: a study of end-of-life decision-making focusing on Advance Directives

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthijs PS van Wijmen ◽  
Mette L Rurup ◽  
H Roeline W Pasman ◽  
Pam J Kaspers ◽  
Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Advance Directives ◽  
End Of Life Decision ◽  
Life Decision
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