Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvance care planning (ACP) is an ongoing conversation that involves shared decision making to clarify and document – through an advance directive – an individual’s wishes, preferences, and goals regarding future medical care. This comprehensive process is critically important to ensuring patients receive the medical care they want in the event they lose the capacity[…]
Reading Time: 3 minutesGoals-of-care conversations help patients with serious illness clarify what they value most and what they hope to see happens with their medical care. Clinicians can use this information to formulate a plan of care around a patient’s values and preferences. Quite often, patients – particularly if they have recently been diagnosed with an illness or[…]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the recently published U.S. News article Looking Ahead to Solo Old Age, several experts – including ACP Decisions co-founder Dr. Angelo Volandes – weigh in on the importance of planning early, especially for those approaching older age on their own (i.e. solo agers). Per the article, “the rate of childlessness among boomers now in their[…]
