Advance care planning conversations: the family perspective

Advance care planning conversations: the family perspective

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The course of endstage renal disease (ESRD) and receiving hemodialysis (HD) treatment is complex and filled with uncertainty. Part of this illness experience includes making end-of-life (EOL) care decisions. Many families are unprepared to make such decisions. Advance care planning (ACP) creates an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kruthaup, Alexandra L.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2008
Subjects:
Advance care planning
End of life care
Family
Hemodialysis
Nursing
Nephrology
Death
Readiness
Endstage Renal Disease
Illness trajectory
Focused ethnographic study
Postmodernist critical theory
Communication breakdown
Facing mortality
Advance care planning facilitator
Timing
Finding meaning
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/283

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