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Advance Care Planning in Palliative Care

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Advance care planning is a patient-centered process to enable a person to express his or her preferences for future healthcare. Advance care planning is an integral component of palliative care for people at various stages in the illness trajectory. This chapter provides an overview of advance care planning; the potential benefits, barriers, and facilitators; the key components of advance care planning at various stages of health; strategies for the advance care planning conversation; and areas for future research.

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  1. Centre for Learning & Research in Palliative Care, HammondCare; and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Josephine M. Clayton

  2. Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Tim Luckett

  3. Advance Care Planning Australia, Austin Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Karen Detering

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    Lieve Van den Block

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Clayton, J.M., Luckett, T., Detering, K. (2018). Advance Care Planning in Palliative Care. In: MacLeod, R., Van den Block, L. (eds) Textbook of Palliative Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31738-0_25-1

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