Health Affairs dedicates its April 2014 issue to “The Long Reach of Alzheimer’s Disease.” The articles cover all aspects of Alzheimer’s, from research challenges, to legislative agendas, to end-of-life care and advance directives. Supporting this…

NPR- Take the time to listen to the recent piece on NPR about La Crosse, Wisconsin–the town where everyone talks about death.  Nearly 96% of people who who have died there had advance directives.  Nationally,…

TCP coach and faith-based leader Claire Willis has just released her book, Lasting Words.  We encourage everyone to pick this book up and attend the book launch at the Brookline Booksmith on March 25th if…

Harriet Warshaw, executive director of The Conversation Project, joins Rabbi Address for the first half of the February 11 edition of “Boomer Generation Radio,” our weekly radio program on WWDB-AM 860 in Philadelphia. In the…

PULSE- Kelly McCutcheon Adams, a director at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, was featured in Pulse Magazine last week.  She told the story of the death of her next door neighbor. Read an excerpt from…

Las Vegas Review Journal (Paul Harasim)-  A ventilator kept my father alive. His heart couldn’t do its job. He lay in the hospital bed with more tubes seemingly pushed into him each day. A decorated…