Advance care planning in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other chronic life-limiting conditions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
People live longer primarily because of improved public health, medical knowledge, and technology. This resulted in a growing population of older people and a fundamental change in the main cause of death, i.e. due to chronic life-limiting illnesses. Chronic-life-limiting illnesses are characterized by prolonged disease trajectories, with a functional decline over months or years and are responsible for more than 73% of the ...