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Advance Care Planning and Advance Directives: an Overview of the Main Critical Issues by Cristina Sedini; Martina Biotto; Lorenza M. Crespi Bel’skij; Roberto Ercole Moroni Grandini; Matteo Cesari is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Abstract Advance care planning (ACP) is a process that guarantees the respect of the patient’s values and priorities about his/her future care at the end of life. It consists of multiple conversations with the health professional that may lead to the completion of Advance Directives (AD), a set of legal documents helpful to clinicians and family members for making critical decisions on behalf of the patient, whereas he/she might become incapable. Over the past years, ACP has become particularly relevant for the growth of chronic diseases, the increase in life expectancy, and the growing attention paid to the patient’s decisional autonomy. Several nations have introduced specific regulations of ACP and AD. However, their diffusion is accompanied by unforeseen limitations and issues, burdening their complete and systematic adoption. The present article describes several controversial aspects of ACP and some of the most significant challenges in end-of-life care.
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- Author
- Cristina Sedini; Martina Biotto; Lorenza M. Crespi Bel’skij; Roberto Ercole Moroni Grandini; Matteo Cesari
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)