[Advance Care Planning-further development of the patient advance directive : What the specialist in internal medicine must know].

ABSTRACT: Despite the availability of the instruments of advance directives, power of attorney and healthcare proxy, the patient's preferences for life-sustaining medical treatment in a specific situation often remain unknown. The aim of the systemically designed German Advance Care Planning (ACP) program is the reflection, documentation and implementation of patients' preferences regarding future medical treatment in case they are incapable of legally binding decision-making. A specially trained ACP facilitator initially supports the verbalization of the attitudes towards life, severe illness and death on an individual level. Based on these principal views, concrete preferences on how to be treated under defined medical circumstances can be discussed and documented in an advance directive. This inc

SUBMITTER: Petri S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9020146 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature