This is the first UK-based guide to Advance Care Planning, and provides practical advice on how this can be implemented by all professionals involved in end of life care, including GPs and specialists outside palliative care who are increasingly treating patients at the end of life. INDICE: Section 1 - Introduction to Advance Care Planning (ACP) - Why do it?; 1: Keri Thomas: Overview and introduction to Advance Care Planning; 2: Jane Seymour and Gillian Horne: Advance Care Planning for the end of life: an overview; 3: Heidi Macleod, David Oliver and Don Redding: Listening to the patient's voice; 4: Simon Conroy: Advance Care Planning for older people; 5: Max Watson: Spiritual aspects of Advance Care Planning; 6: Rob George: Advance Care Planning: politically correct, but ethically sound?; Section 2 - Context in the UK; 7: Claire Henry and Sheila Joseph: Advance Care Planning for the end of life; 8: Simon Chapman and Andrew Makin: he Implications of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 for Advance Care Planning and decision making; 9: Ben Lobo:Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment (ADRT); 10: Madeline Bass: The tough questions - Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) discussions; Section 3 - The UK Experience of ACP - what's happening now; 11: Les Storey and Adrienne Betteley: Preferred priorities for care - An Advance Care Planning process; 12: Deborah Holman, Nikki Sawkins and Jo Hockley: Experience of use of Advance Care Planning (ACP) in care homes; 13: Bruce Mason, Dierdra Sives and Scott A. Murray: Advance Care Planning in the community; 14: Simon Noble: ACP in Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care; 15: Angela Thompson: Advanced Care Planning - Thinking Ahead for Parents and Children; 16: Claud Regnard: Advance Care Planning (ACP) for people who do not have capacity; Section 4 - International Experience of ACP - What can we learn from other countries?; 17: Anne M. Wilkinson: Advance directives and Advance Care Planning: the US experience; 18: Joanne Lynn and Anne M. Wilkinson: A common sense guide to improving Advance Care Planning -from theory to practice; 19: AnnMarie Nielsen and Sharon Baxter: Advance CarePlanning in Canada: past experience and current strategies; 20: William Silvester and Karen M Detering: The evolution of Advance Care Planning in Australiawith a focus on hospital care; 21: Josephine M. Clayton: Advance Care Planning discussions in Australia - the development of clinical practice guidelines; 22: Eric Fairbank: Living and dying in style: Australia - an example of ACP inaction; Section 5 - Practicalities and Getting Going; 23: Jackie Beavan, Carolyn Fowler, Sarah Russell: Communication skills and Advance Care Planning; 24:Jennifer Stodhart: Working with local commissioners to deliver advanced care planning; Appendix 1 - Useful websites and resources; Appendix 2 - Aids to communication; Appendix 3 - Guidance and Useful ACP Tools
- ISBN: 978-0-19-956163-6
- Editorial: Oxford University Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 305
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés