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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2019.20.10.243

A Study on the Motivation to Write Signing Advance Medical Directives  

Chang, Kyung-Hee (Dept. of Literary and Arts Therapy, The Graduate School, Konkuk University)
Kang, Kyung-hee (Dept. of Dental Hygiene, Konyang University)
Kim, Doo Ree (College of Nursing, Konyang University)
Lim, HyoNam (College of Nursing, Konyang University)
Kim, Kwang-Hwan (Dept. of Hospital Management, Konyang University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.20, no.10, 2019 , pp. 243-249 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study examined the patient's advantage and respect self-decision to protect human dignity and values, who are on the pathway of the hospice palliative care and death process. The study subjects were the elderly who had signed the advance medical directives at C Christian religious facilities in S region. The survey period was started on July 1st, 2019 and lasted for ten days. The study resulted in four topics and eight sub-topics on the motivation for preparing advanced medical directives. The four topics were 'for children', 'fear of pain', 'want to clear my life', 'felt the necessity', and the sub-topics were 'don't want to make a burden to children', 'don't want to make a worry of medical expenses', 'fear of pain', 'have experience of taking caring of painful death process', 'relaxed mind', 'importance of self-decision', 'have known it before but now decided', and 'it is the new information and decided'. This research is meaningful in that it can form the basis for improving well-dying education programs for the good death of the elderly and supplementing effective systems for preparing advance medical directives.
Keywords
Advance Medical Directives; Hospice; Palliative Care; Well-Dying; Dementia;
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