Diagnosed With Dementia, She Documented Her Wishes. They Said No.

(By JoNel Aleccia for Kaiser Health News)

ITHACA, N.Y. — When she worked on the trading floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, long before cellphone calculators, Susan Saran could perform complex math problems in her head. Years later, as one of its top regulators, she was in charge of investigating insider trading deals.