Palliative in Practice-Ten years ago there were few palliative care teams in hospitals, but today more than 63 percent of hospitals with 50 beds or more provide palliative care. Systems and structures for quality care…

Of all the hard memories from my mother’s long, slow decline, this is the one that rises repeatedly to the surface of my mind. I was sitting at the office writing my column, on a…

Read the findings of the first ever national survey on end-of-life conversations. TCP Survey Release_FINAL 9 18 13

Ellen Goodman discusses the results of The Conversation Project’s Survey on end-of-life conversations. Conversation Disconnect: The Conversation Project’s National Survey on End-of-Life Conversations

Wall Street Journal- My mother died shortly before her 85th birthday, in a quiet hospital room in Connecticut. One of my brothers was down the hall, calling me in California to say, too late, that…

The Atlantic-For a week last month, Scott Simon, the popular radio host of NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday,” stayed by his mother’s side in a Chicago hospital as she died. She ate and slept little, and…