Hillary Walker Advance Care Planning Summary

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In the article “Advanced planning can allow you to make choices about end-of-life care. Here’s how,” Hillary Walker, the author, states the benefits of planning ahead for end-of-life care and the consequences if one doesn’t. Inappropriate care and family conflict can be a result of not having an advance care plan. Whereas, when planning ahead of a crisis, one may reap benefits. For instance, peace of mind, better decision making, less chaos and family conflict are known benefits (Walker, 2018). In this paper, Walker’s conclusions about advance care planning will be analyzed. The author did a great job showing a contrast. She used examples of an individual who planned ahead and the ones who didn’t. There was an appeal to the audience emotions(Pathos).
The mention of Barbara Bush dying in the first sentence of the article would evoke an emotion. The author’s …show more content…

It is reasonable to believe the claims made by the author of benefitting from advance care planning. The author is program coordinator for Advance Care Planning. She is knowledgeable of the topic. There is also an appeal to ethos. Referring to not having an advance care plan as being “unnecessarily cruel” is an example of the use of the logical fallacy, ‘scare tactic’. The author also expresses the importance of planning ahead for healthcare and providing opportunities to learn how to. Advance care planning is the process of planning for future medical care in the event the patient is incapacitated (Emmanuel, Gunten, & Ferris, 2000). Walker’s article begins with the introduction of Barbara Bush, a former First Lady (Walker, 2018). The author mentions that Mrs. Bush had made plans not to prolong her life with medical treatments (Walker, 2018). Instead she chose comfort care

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