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Empowering Individuals In The Community: Let Your Wishes Be Known Through Advance Healthcare Planning, Elizabeth Range Parnell
Empowering Individuals In The Community: Let Your Wishes Be Known Through Advance Healthcare Planning, Elizabeth Range Parnell
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Advance healthcare planning in the community is a responsibility that requires informed decision-making, time, and individualized attention. Advance healthcare planning in the community should be an organized process of communication that is intended to assist, engage, and support individuals, their families, and friends in understanding, reflecting upon, and discussing the loved one’s goals, values, and preferences for their future health care needs. The growing older adult population in the United States has increased age-related morbidities, and life-limiting chronic illnesses that increase the demand for quality, yet cost-effective end of life care. When a loved one is sick and unable to …