I open the FaceTime app, make sure my house and my kid are presentable (if you are Latino, you know), and press call. My father lives in Colombia, in a small town near Medellín, about…

I grew up hearing my grandmother say that she was afraid of dying. As she would put it, “If death were rest, I would rather live tired.” My grandmother was always a spirited person, with…

We’ve pulled together some of our top resources and communications content to create this Spanish language toolkit(Part 2) to help you reach your Spanish-speaking audiences. Instructions for this and our other English language toolkits can be…

As someone who does research on health care through the end of life, I get into a lot of conversations with people who are looking for advice as they face difficult decisions. People reach out…

Over the last year, I have come to understand caregiving differently.  Not as an abstract concept. Not as a framework on a page. Not even only as a professional conversation, though I work at the Institute…

For some people, the idea of advance care planning brings up an unexpected fear: “What if this pulls me back into relationships that I’ve worked hard to step away from?” We hear this concern especially…