Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Feb 24, 2022 · 49m

There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). It's not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled "Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong." Since then there has been a lot of back and forth, with even a couple of podcasts from us, several JAMA viewpoints, and most recently a series of published replies from leaders in the field on why ACP is still valuable (see below for references). Despite all of these publications, I'm still left at a…