Enough: The Failure of the Living Will - Fagerlin - 2004 - Hastings Center Report - Wiley Online
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To honor the wishes of an incapacitated patient, surrogate decision makers must predict the
treatment decisions patients would make for themselves if able. Social psychological …

Psychology as a profession has entered the arena of palliative and hospice care later in the
process than other health care professions. Through the use of Familial Advance Planning …

Advance care planning ideally includes communication about values between patients,
family members, and care providers. This study examined the utility of health care values …

Near the end of life, individuals often become too ill to express their wishes about the use of
life-sustaining medical treatment. Instructional advance directives (ie, livings wills) are …

Instructional advance directives (ie, living wills) have been endorsed widely as a crucial
method for maintaining seriously ill patients' autonomy at the end of life. Theoretically, living …

Advance directives are intended to preserve patients' ability to influence decisions about the
medical care they receive when illness or injury deprives them of the capacity to make …

Decisions about specific life-sustaining medical treatments have been found to be only
moderately stable over time. This study examined whether more general judgments, such as …

Conclusions Existing studies of preferences for life-prolonging treatments suggst that the will
to survive is strong for many older adults, despite the presence of serious illness. Additional …

With the modern ability to sustain life well beyond its natural limits questions about restricting
treatment, identifying patient preferences, and the expectation that psychological as well as …