Effect of an End-of-Life Planning Intervention on the completion of advance directives in homeless persons: a randomized trial.

Background: Few interventions have focused on improving end-of-life care for underserved populations, such as homeless persons.

Objective: To determine whether homeless persons will complete a counseling session on advance care planning and fill out a legal advance directive designed to assess care preferences and preserve the dignity of marginalized persons.

Design: Prospective, single-blind, randomized trial comparing self-guided completion of an advance directive with professionally assisted advance care planning.

Engaging homeless persons in end of life preparations.

Background: There are no prospective studies that have investigated the effects of an intervention to improve end of life (EOL) care in an underserved population.

Objective: To determine whether homeless persons will complete an advance directive (AD).

Design: Randomized trial comparing two modes of providing an opportunity for homeless persons to complete an AD.