Health Affairs: The Conversation Project, a grassroots public campaign, is encouraging conversations about end-of-life wishes and teaming up with health care providers to transform the way Americans deal with care choices near the end of life. The project has…
Positive Women’s Network: Often people are uncomfortable talking about death, but it’s in the cards for every single one of us. Before successful HIV treatments were available and early death seemed inevitable, there was lots…
Deseret News: When Ellen Goodman’s dad was dying of terminal cancer at age 57, his wife bought him a set of luggage as a birthday gift. Denial, says Goodman, a retired Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, ran fiercely…
eHospice: The Conversation Project is dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end of life care. It is a U.S. public engagement campaign to get everyone’s end of life issues respected. According to statistics…
US News & Weekly Report: Training doctors in palliative care is challenging in its own right, but begs the question of how to convert the public to a different way of approaching stressful and emotional…
The Boston Globe: There are growing efforts — some grassroots, others state-initiated — to help ease anxiety around end-of-life conversations and explain the often-confusing medical terms and choices patients face at this time. Here are details…
