Leaving a lasting legacy: A scoping review of ethical wills.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Palliative care guidelines recommend an interdisciplinary approach to address patients' awareness of mortality and need for end-of-life preparation. An ethical will is a nonlegal way to address mortality by communicating a lasting and intangible legacy of values to others. The aim of this scoping review is to clarify the operationalization of ethical wills across disciplines and map the purposes and outcomes of creating an ethical will.

Methods

We followed the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews. We searched 14 databases in November 2019 and January 2021 without filtering publication date or type. Two reviewers independently screened 1,948 publications. We extracted frequently used terms describing content, audience, format, purpose, and outcom

SUBMITTER: Neller SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9636071 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature