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Health care directives for the elderly.

Mafalda Urbanyi, D William Molloy, Judith A Lever.

Abstract

The treatment of incompetent older people presents physicians and family members with complex medical, ethical, moral, and legal problems. This article explores the use of advance health care directives in the decision-making process, the qualities of the "ideal" directive, practical and legal issues relating to directives, and the role of the family physician in their implementation.

Entities: Species

Keywords: Death and Euthanasia

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Year: 1992 PMID： 11652225 PMCID： PMC2145562

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Can Fam Physician ISSN： 0008-350X Impact factor: 3.275

15 in total

1. Treatment preferences, attitudes toward advance directives and concerns about health care.

Authors: David W Molloy; Gordon Guyatt; Efrem Alemayehu; William E McIlroy
Journal: Humane Med Date: 1991-10

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Authors: M P Lawton; M Moss; A Glicksman
Journal: Milbank Q Date: 1990 Impact factor: 4.911

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Authors: N G Smedira; B H Evans; L S Grais; N H Cohen; B Lo; M Cooke; W P Schecter; C Fink; E Epstein-Jaffe; C May
Journal: N Engl J Med Date: 1990-02-01 Impact factor: 91.245

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Authors: T Tomlinson; K Howe; M Notman; D Rossmiller
Journal: Gerontologist Date: 1990-02

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Authors: S H Miles; P A Singer; M Siegler
Journal: N Engl J Med Date: 1989-07-06 Impact factor: 91.245

6. The Medical Directive. A new comprehensive advance care document.

Authors: L L Emanuel; E J Emanuel
Journal: JAMA Date: 1989-06-09 Impact factor: 56.272

7. A prospective study of advance directives for life-sustaining care.

Authors: M Danis; L I Southerland; J M Garrett; J L Smith; F Hielema; C G Pickard; D M Egner; D L Patrick
Journal: N Engl J Med Date: 1991-03-28 Impact factor: 91.245

8. Treatment choices at the end of life: a comparison of decisions by older patients and their physician-selected proxies.

Authors: N R Zweibel; C K Cassel
Journal: Gerontologist Date: 1989-10

Health care directives for the elderly.

1. Treatment preferences, attitudes toward advance directives and concerns about health care.

Review 2. The quality of the last year of life of older persons.

3. Withholding and withdrawal of life support from the critically ill.

4. An empirical study of proxy consent for elderly persons.

5. Conflicts between patients' wishes to forgo treatment and the policies of health care facilities.

6. The Medical Directive. A new comprehensive advance care document.

7. A prospective study of advance directives for life-sustaining care.

8. Treatment choices at the end of life: a comparison of decisions by older patients and their physician-selected proxies.

9. The use of quality-of-life considerations in medical decision making.

10. The living will. Help or hindrance?

Review 1. Counseling the elderly on decision making for the end of life. Practical issues for physicians.

Review 2. Myocardial infarction. Considerations for geriatric patients.