Medicare recognizes the importance of end-of-life planning and what you’d like your future care to look like. Its advance care planning benefit is part of your annual wellness appointment. During your ...

Older U.S. adults face at least 26 unique issues that can interfere with advance care planning, according to researchers from the University of California, San Francisco. Investigators surveyed 1,241 ...

Implementing advance care planning consults can increase advance directive completion rates. The authors demonstrate the impact of consults on completed advance directives in the medical record.

As people set New Year’s resolutions and plan for the future, health experts say advance care planning should be part of that ...

The ABA Commission on Law and Aging and partner organizations have developed an Advance Care Planning set of guiding principles and a practical checklist for lawyers aimed at improving the advance ...

Several triggers, such as consultations for malignancy and heart failure, noted in electronic health records (EHRs) of older adults were associated with mortality. The initiation of advance care ...

Cancer patients who engage in advance care planning are more likely to receive less aggressive, more comfort-based end-of-life care when compared to their peers who do not have an advanced care plan ...