La pianificazione condivisa delle cure. Analisi della procedure e delle sue buone ragioni

Advance care planning (ACP) is a procedure regulated in Italy by Law No. 219 of 2017 Norme in materia di consenso informato e di disposizioni anticipate di trattamento, but remains largely unknown and underutilized, across many healthcare contexts. Healthcare professionals often raise rhetorical, emotional, or even propagandistic objections to advance care planning. These reasons are characterized by being ideological and fallacious beliefs, that is irrational arguments, which persist despite evidence to the contrary. To be overcome, these reasons must be made explicit and subject to critical analysis, especially if one aims to lay adequate foundations, from a bioethical, legal, and argumentative perspective, for the broader dissemination of advance care planning.