One Good Day
In the end, caregivers accept the limits of what they can control while making the best of what remains—a shift in focus to one good day at a time.
Honoring the here and now offers a nurturing space for aging…
In Memory of Dr Herbert Randall: The Letter That Changed Everything
Dr. Herbert Randall passed away on February 14, 2019. He was an advocate for Senior Citizens and served as President of the Nevada Silver Haired Legislative Forum and Silver Senator with the Nevada Delegation of the National Silver Haired Congress. …
End of the road: Doctors need to begin the conversation much earlier
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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…
New PDF Booklet: Conversations Near The End
“We wish it didn’t come to this, but it does. Someone you care about is at the end of their life. No one knows exactly when but everyone is clear about what’s happening. Now comes the hard part, the conversations…
If I Die First…
Aging parents face an uneven future in which one will be left behind. FD Reeves’ poem “Home in Wartime” contains two elegant and inspiring stanzas of instructions for both possibilities…
From “Home in Wartime”
By FD Reeves
If I die…
Do Not Hospitalize Order
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 Life Medical Quicksand
We all know someone with a family member who has fallen into end of life medical quicksand and suffered an excruciating outcome. In his article I Know You Love Me–Now Let Me Die Dr. Louis Dr. Profeta, an ER physician,…
End Of The Line…
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
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…
Conversations Near the End Mind Map
This is the companion mind map for the article Conversations at the End…