Correction to: Palgrave Communications (2017) 3, Article number: 17077 doi: 10.1057/palcomms.2017.77; Published 22 Aug 2017; Updated 10 Oct 2017

The previous title was ‘Advanced directives and knowledge of future selves’. This has been updated to ‘Advance directives and knowledge of future selves’. Two instances on page 2 and one instance on page 3 of ‘advanced directive’ have been corrected to ‘advance directive’.

The article has been corrected online.