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Advance Care Planning

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Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics

Abstract

There is general agreement across health care disciplines that advance care planning (ACP) and advanced directives (ADs) can help ensure a patient receives desired end-of-life care. However, ADs and ACP remain significantly underused. The evolution of ADs and ACP in the United States has influenced development of ADs and ACP in other countries. This entry traces the development and history of ADs and ACP in the United States, identifies reasons they are not more widely used, discusses ethical considerations, and concludes with multicultural considerations.

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Portions of this entry have been adapted from the author’s doctoral dissertation (McCune 2014) and reprinted here with the author’s permission.

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  1. School of Applied Psychology, Counseling & Family Therapy, Antioch University Seattle, 2326 6th Ave, 98121, Seattle, WA, USA

    Susana Lauraine McCune

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  1. Duquesne University Center for Healthcare Ethics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Henk ten Have

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McCune, S.L. (2015). Advance Care Planning. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_9-1

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