Five Studies: The Importance—and Difficulty—of Talking About Advanced-Care Planning [PSMag.com]
There is perhaps no other issue in health care that elicits an emotional reaction on par with the question of how we die. The discussions around “end-of-life care” and “advanced care planning” (ACP) typically concern the treatment we will receive (or forgo) at end of our lives, and often they identify a surrogate decision-maker: someone whom the patient trusts to make sensible decisions on their behalf when they are no longer capable of doing so themselves. Before...