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Help for Planning End-of-Life Care
Posted on 01/10/2013

The New York Times: After a user explores Prepare with family members — the approach Dr. Sudore encourages — the Web site consolidates the responses into a summary and creates an action plan: things still to…

A Conversation with Ellen Goodman
Posted on 01/09/2013

At The End of Life:  Ellen Goodman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and activist. After her mother’s death, Goodman, co-founded The Conversation Project—an organization “dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care.”The Conversation…

USA Today: Talking about serious illness and death is hard. That’s why so few people do it. But it’s important. That’s why there’s a growing movement to get more of these conversations going among families and…

Daily Democrat: While 82 percent of Californians say it is important to have end-of-life wishes in writing, only 23 percent of us have done so, according to a poll by the California HealthCare Foundation. And that…

The Gift of a Family Conversation
Posted on 01/09/2013

Wicked Local:  As the director of the Beverly Council on Aging and Senior Community Center, I am an advocate of finding a way to have “the talk” with our older parents, relatives or neighbors. In…