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2. Advance care planning - Wikipedia

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   Advance care planning. Advance care planning is a process that enables individuals with decisional mental capacity to make plans about their future health care. [ 1] Advance care plans provide direction to healthcare professionals when a person is not in a position to make and/or communicate their own healthcare choices.

3. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. An advance healthcare directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, medical directive or advance decision, is a legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity. In the U.S ...

4. Patient Self-Determination Act - Wikipedia

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   The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) was passed by the United States Congress in 1990 as an amendment to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990.Effective on December 1, 1991, this legislation required many hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospice providers, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and other health care institutions to provide information about ...

5. End-of-life care - Wikipedia

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   Advances in medicine in the last few decades have provided an increasing number of options to extend a person's life and highlighted the importance of ensuring that an individual's preferences and values for end-of-life care are honored. [6] Advanced care planning is the process by which a person of any age is able to provide their preferences ...

6. Nursing care plan - Wikipedia

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   A nursing care plan provides direction on the type of nursing care the individual/family/community may need. [ 1] The main focus of a nursing care plan is to facilitate standardised, evidence-based and holistic care. [ 2] Nursing care plans have been used for quite a number of years for human purposes and are now also getting used in the ...

7. Death panel - Wikipedia

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   Death panel. " Death panel " is a political term that originated during the 2009 debate about federal health care legislation to cover the uninsured in the United States. [ 1] Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, coined the term when she charged that proposed legislation would create a "death ...

8. Goal-oriented health care - Wikipedia

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   The clinical methods used to help patients clarify and achieve their health-related goals are different for each goal type though the categories are inter-related. The uniting factor of this conceptual framework is that the goal is formed in a discussion involving both the patient and the health care providers prior to the development of a plan of care that is based upon the patient's goals ...

9. Palliative care - Wikipedia

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   Palliative care. Palliative care (derived from the Latin root palliare, or 'to cloak') is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. [ 1] Within the published literature, many definitions of palliative care exist.