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Title: Advance care planning in residential aged care facilities.
Austin Authors: Blackford, Jeanine;Strickland, Elizabeth;Morris, Bridget
Affiliation: Austin Health Clinical School of Nursing, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Issue Date: 1-Dec-2007
Publication information: Contemporary Nurse; 27(1): 141-51
Abstract: A person's right to self-determination in health care is now a fundamental principle of health care provision. As a consequence Advance Care Planning (ACP) is a critical issue in health care including palliative care as it is seen as a way of ensuring a person's right to participate not only in future health care choices but in end of life decision making. To date there have been few reports of successful ACP programs. In 2004 and 2005 a program of advance care planning, known as Respecting Patient Choices was introduced in 17 residential aged care facilities in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. This program consisted of a system-wide approach that included education for aged care staff; information for residents and families as well as changes to organisational processes to ensure that residents have opportunity for self-determination in their future health care. This paper will report on the lessons learnt from this implementation and identify strategies which foster sustainability of ACP.
Gov't Doc #: 18386964
URI: http://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/10580
DOI: 10.5555/conu.2007.27.1.141
Journal: Contemporary nurse
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18386964
Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Homes for the Aged.organization & administration
Medical Records
Planning Techniques
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Queensland
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