Grace Cherian Blog: Today far too many Americans do not die in the way they would choose. Surveys indicate, for instance, 90 percent of people say they want to die at home surrounded by family….
Grace Cherian Blog: Today far too many Americans do not die in the way they would choose. Surveys indicate, for instance, 90 percent of people say they want to die at home surrounded by family….
HealthLeaders: A year after leaving his position as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Don Berwick, MD, talked with HealthLeaders Media. HLM: So how do we reduce costs of end-of-life care if…
The Washington Post: As a longtime professional chaplain, mostly serving people with cancer and their loves ones, I have been invited into many family conversations about making health-care decisions for a loved one at the…
Info Long-Term Care: This holiday season, The Conversation Project urges people to share the gift of conversation, talking about what matters most to us at the end of our lives – for loved ones this…
LeadingAge: End-of-life planning is often avoided or delayed by Americans. In the United States, names like Terri Schiavo and Dr. Kevorkian clutter our collective understanding of what to expect at the end of life. And…
iTriage: We’re all going to die. Everybody poops, and everybody dies. And everybody knows it. So why do only a quarter of Americans have advance directives for their end-of-life care in writing? In a survey…