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Feb 2025
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Definition and recommendations of advanc...

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About this episode

 

This episode features  Dr Masanori Mori (Division of Palliative and Supportive Care, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan)

 

What is already known about the topic?

  • As in Western countries’ health-care systems, advance care planning is being increasingly implemented in Asian ones, but consensus on its definition and recommendations based on Asian culture are lacking.
  • In high-context, Confucian-influenced Asian societies, explicit conversations about end-of-life care with patients are not always the norm. Family involvement is crucial in decision-making. Health-care providers in Asia uncommonly involve patients in advance care planning, partly due to their lack of knowledge and skills in advance care planning, personal uneasiness, fear of conflicts with families and their legal consequences, and the lack of a standard system for advance care planning.

 

What this paper adds?

  • A key domain not previously highlighted in Western Delphi studies is “a person-centered and family-based approach” that facilitates families’ involvement to support an individual’s engagement in advance care planning and the attainment of the individual’s best interest through shared decision-making. Treatment preferences in Asian contexts are often shaped by relationships and responsibilities toward others, with families and health-care providers supporting individuals to meaningfully participate, even in the presence of physical or cognitive impairments.

 

Implications for practice, theory, or policy

  • Our definition and recommendations can guide clinical practice, education, research, and policy-making in advance care planning, not only in the Asian sectors included in our study, but also in regions with Asian residents and other areas where implicit communication and family-centered decision-making are valued.
  • Our findings, combined with the existing evidence, will help future investigations to develop culturally sensitive advance care planning interventions, identify appropriate outcomes, and build an infrastructure where Asian individuals receive care consistent with their values, goals, and preferences.

 

Full paper available from:    

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02692163241284088

 

If you would like to record a podcast about your published (or accepted) Palliative Medicine paper, please contact Dr Amara Nwosu: 

a.nwosu@lancaster.ac.uk

 

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