Category / Advance Care Planning
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Difficult Decisions in Health Care
What does quality of life mean?
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Beyond Living Wills
Are living wills too ambiguous to guide medical decision making?
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Advocating for the Dying – The View of Family and Friends
Advocating for the Dying – The View of Family and Friends Imagine you are being forced to play a game. You don’t know the rules. People playing the game with you know the rules but don’t bother to explain them. They can be changed at any time, depending on who is in charge. Some…
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Reflections on Cultural Difference and Advance Directives
Advance care planning cannot assume a single meaning of autonomy.
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A Practical Advance Directive Survey
A survey of 11 Kansas City hospitals showed support for advance care planning.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Different Approach
Physician Assisted Suicide – A Different Approach More requests for physician-assisted suicide are not due to present suffering. Steps must be designed to uncover the real roots of the desire so that they can be specifically addressed. Examples of such steps are proposed.
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Advance Directives – Are They Effective?
Have advance directives led to progress in patients’ rights?
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Caring Conversations – A Partnership Between You and Your Agent
Appointing an agent is the beginning of a partnership.
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Project Talk
Can family philanthropy advance health, healthcare and science?
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The Case of John: Refusal to Eat in a Long-Term Care Facility
John is a strongly independent 92-year-old widower of many years, with no children. Is he done living?
