Kansas Health Institute News Service –“Longevity is good in general. In the specifics, it becomes a very different picture,” said John Carney, head of the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City, Mo., a nonprofit group…

New York Times–I was 25 when I flew home for my father’s last birthday. His cancer had returned and he would die three months later at the age of 57. What I remember most about…

US News and World Report– A proposed rule permitting the government to reimburse doctors for talking to patients about how they want to live their final days has re-emerged to decidedly less furor than when opponents tied it…

C-TAC 2015 National Summit on Advanced Illness Care Engaging Multiple Generations Introduction: Margaret Maguire, JD, SVP, Corporate Accountability and Chief of Staff, Cambia Health Solutions; President & Board Chair, Cambia Health Foundation Moderator: Ellen Goodman,…

Health Affairs: As the former CEO of Denver Health, a large safety-net health care system in Colorado, where I also served as chief medical officer for most of my twenty-year tenure as CEO, I was…

New Mexico Mercury: Friend of The Conversation Project, Joan Gibson, talks about the importance of advanced care planning at various stages of our lives and her initiative to involve a Health Care Companion to that…