Two organizations are unifying in an effort to change the way Americans approach advance care planning. In a survey conducted by The Conversation Project in 2012, 90 percent of respondents said they believe it is important to discuss their end-of-life care wishes. Yet, that same survey also found that only 30 percent of those individuals are actually having the conversations.
In the end, the personal was political. What brought the 78-year-old California governor and former Jesuit seminarian to sign the law that will allow doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients was thinking…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Katie Stinchon (617) 269-7171 katie@teakmedia.com CAMBRIDGE, Mass. | Families caring for loved ones with cognitive impairments face special challenges when it comes to managing their end-of-life care. Often caregivers of patients…
Make the most out of this year’s National Healthcare Decisions Day! Join our national webinar on April 13 at 3 p.m. (ET) to learn how you can promote conversations about end-of-life care in your community….
More than two years ago, The Conversation Project, in collaboration with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), launched a public campaign dedicated to encouraging people to talk about their wishes for end-of-life care — not…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Katie Stinchon (617) 269-7171 katie@teakmedia.com Michael Hebb, (503) 250-1678 michael@deathoverdinner.org National Dinner Party to Dine and Discuss Death The Conversation Project and Death Over Dinner Celebrate National Healthcare Decisions Day by…