[Advance care planning: how can we do better in geriatrics?]

How can we improve the discussion and documentation of goals of care with older people and their relatives? When promoting advance care planning one is expected to address a threefold challenge: an ethical challenge, a quality of care - patient safety challenge, and a public health challenge. The aim of this article is to describe how we integrated advance care planning at the Geneva University Hospitals with a focus on the department of geriatrics and rehabilitation. We explain how we improved the documentation in the electronic medical records. We detail how we trained healthcare professionals and disseminated the information to patients and to the general public. Finally, we point out the success factors and barriers in this process, as they might be encountered by healthcare institutions and networks implementing advance care planning elsewhere in Switzerland.
Competing Interests: Les auteurs n’ont déclaré aucun conflit d’intérêts en relation avec cet article.