Journal article
Advance care planning and surrogate health care decision making for older adults
Journal of Gerontological Nursing, Vol.37(5), pp.15-19
05/01/2011
DOI: 10.3928/00989134-20100401-01
PMID: 21485982
Abstract
Older adults have a legally recognized right to determine and control the health care they receive and are legally presumed to possess the capacity necessary to make health care decisions. However, older adults are at major risk for life-threatening and serious health problems leading to a loss of their capacity to make end-of-life and other health care decisions. Advance care planning is a process that enables older adults to specify who they want to act as a surrogate decision maker and what decisions they want made for them in the event of incapacitation. Geriatric nurses can play a significant role in promoting advance care planning and the use of legal tools for such planning. 28 references
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Advance care planning and surrogate health care decision making for older adults
- Creators
- Josephine Gittler - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of Gerontological Nursing, Vol.37(5), pp.15-19
- DOI
- 10.3928/00989134-20100401-01
- PMID
- 21485982
- ISSN
- 0098-9134
- eISSN
- 1938-243X
- Number of pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2011
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Nursing; Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9983557621702771
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