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How Health Literacy, Education Influences a Patients’ Hospice Experience

Hospice News

But what has moved forward is how we support and do things like informed consent to promote patient autonomy and self determination. We go and we have these living wills, where you don’t necessarily have advanced directives or plans, right only 34% to 36% [of patients] right now have an advance directive.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

So a lot of the skills that are used in advance care planning are the same kind of skills you would use in a context where you were communicating information or prognosis or doing an informed consent discussion. So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? Hopefully that answers your question.