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Psychiatric Advance Directives and their relevance to improving psychiatric care in Asian countries
Author(s) -
Poremski Daniel,
Alexander Mark,
Fang Tina,
Tan Giles MingYee,
Ong Samantha,
Su Alex,
Fung Daniel,
Chua Hong Choon
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
asia‐pacific psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1758-5872
pISSN - 1758-5864
DOI - 10.1111/appy.12374
Subject(s) - legislation , directive , relevance (law) , mental illness , mental health act , psychiatry , mental health , mental healthcare , service (business) , medicine , psychology , political science , business , law , marketing , computer science , programming language
People with mental illness may be unable to provide critical input about the care they wish to receive during a psychiatric crisis because of altered mental states. It is therefore imperative that clinicians seek to understand service users' wishes for care while they are well and able to provide meaningful input into the discussion. Achieving such an end may be done by discussing and completing a psychiatric advance directive. However, very few Asian countries have legislation that supports such advance directives. The present article seeks to give physicians more information about advance psychiatric directives and the potential role they could play to improve the healthcare provided in Asia to people at risk of losing capacity due to a mental illness. The degree to which mental health legislation supports psychiatric advance directives is documented for each country of South East Asia and Eastern Asia.