end of life care

Treatment and comfort for those with terminal illnesses as well those in the last stages of their life.

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Know your options and communicate what you want so you can make the right decisions.

Hospice is an approach to end-of-life care that focuses on providing comfort and dignity to patients at the end of life.

A POLST form is a legal document for people with an advanced progressive or terminal illnesses and specifies the type of care a...

There are many different options for end-of-life housing and care arrangements, with the primary differences being in the amount...

An Advance Health Care Directive, also called an Advance Directive, is a legal document stating how you would like to be treated...

A Physicians Order for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is a legal document for people with advanced illnesses that...

Palliative Care is delivered through a network of caregivers (doctors, nurses, social workers, clergy, family, etc...) and...

Judy MacDonald Johnston, creator of Good [End Of] Life, gave a powerful talk at the TED conference this year. It inspired us...

The New York Times has shared a short documentary called "The Caretaker" that looks at the loving, compassionate, and...

If you've even been on the receiving end of a terminal diagnosis or watched someone struggle with a serious illness, then...

Author Katy Butler’s new book, “Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death,” which chronicles her mother’s...

We do our best to prepare for natural disasters, but we rarely prepare for the natural disaster awaiting us all: Death. So...

Legendary actress/comedienne Carol Burnett made a guest appearance on a very special (and sad) Thanksgiving episode of CBS...

If you’re a proponent for ending your life in the event of a terminal illness, the Breaking Bad state has some good news. A...

In the May issue of The Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch looks into the work of two doctors, Dr. Angelo Volandes and his wife Dr....

After my mom’s cancer diagnosis, lots of things changed: schedules, diets, and priorities, to name a few. But one of the...

Last night Rock Center with Brian Williams aired a very powerful piece about a tough subject: Talking about dying in order...

Do doctors die differently than the rest of us? Maybe. Yesterday over at BoingBoing, editor Xeni Jardin shared an essay...

Last month we brought you a story via BoingBoing that asked if doctors die differently than the rest of us. (The answer, in...

In Issue 11 of The Magazine (a subscription-based online and iPhone/iPad app that features fascinating short articles on a...

This week the Alzheimer's Association released a report stating that 1 in 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer's disease or another...