Illness as transformative experience: Implications of philosophy for advance care planning

Advance care planning has been shown to improve patient outcomes and is recommended as part of routine care for people with a life-limiting illness. Nevertheless, developing an advance care plan can be complex and challenging for both patients and family members, and the clinicians who support them. One complexity is that illness and its treatments often cannot be deeply understood without lived experience. In this paper, we explore this idea, highlighting how lived experience can bring about unpredictable changes in an individual ’s values and preferences.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - February 28, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Barnaby Hole, Lucy Selman Source Type: research