end of life care Archives - Aging, caregiving and the journey through the second half of life

End of the road: Doctors need to begin the conversation much earlier

October 19, 2018

Read full article here This article from BCC.com highlights the need for doctors to begin the end of life conversations much earlier in the process to help their patients cope with this unavidabe reality and, as important, find out what’s…

Do Not Hospitalize Order

July 15, 2017

The Final Act of Control? As our society rewrites the generational narrative about old age, it’s not surprising that the vast majority of us do not want to be shipped to a hospital to die. This article by Ann Brenaoff…

End Of The Line…

March 24, 2016

We take pains to keep the nursing home at arm’s length, a cultural purgatory that haunts our worst fears about being old. Yet, as Valery Hazanov found out, it is also an instructional landscape about who we are despite our…

The End of Life Dilemma

October 11, 2015

The question of how much care at the end of life is a dilemma with no easy answers. Ultimately, it is best approached by understanding the patient’s perspective within the context of his or her family: What does the patient…