WBUR Here & Now: There’s a subject most of us say is extremely important: making sure our family is not burdened by difficult end-of-life decisions. A recent survey by the California Health Foundation found that…
WBUR Here & Now: There’s a subject most of us say is extremely important: making sure our family is not burdened by difficult end-of-life decisions. A recent survey by the California Health Foundation found that…
The Huffington Post: Few of us die in our own beds now. Modern medicine keeps many of us living longer, and then some of us die by inches, in an ICU or on a ventilator,…
CNN: Ellen Goodman and her mother talked about every subject under the sun, except one: how her mom wanted to live out the end of her life. From time to time, when somebody they knew…
The Association for Patient Experience: The Conversation Project, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and launched and co-founded by journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman, grew out of Goodman’s experience with her mother’s death. “My mother…
Itineraries: Once or twice when we heard about a relative or friend who was comatose or on a feeding tube, she would say, “If I’m like that, pull the plug.” But, of course, when the…
ReAge: Hebrew SeniorLife spoke with Ellen Goodman on Friday, September 14 about her involvement in our upcoming College of Retirement Living event “You & Your Aging Parents: A Lifelong Approach to Health, Wellness & Care” and…