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Expanding Advanced Care Planning for Veterans

January 4, 2021 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(Source – www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage) Life-Sustaining Treatment Orders empower older Veterans to communicate their authentic wishes for care at the end of

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‘There’s no back to normal’: For people with terminal illnesses, time lost to Covid-19 can’t be made up

December 23, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(By Andrew Joseph for STAT) After Aaron Hoover found out he had glioblastoma in 2019, a new imperative imbued each

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End of Life Health Care Finance 

10 states with the highest health insurance costs for employees

December 2, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Employees in Minnesota face some of the highest annual health insurance costs in

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Aging Emerging Health Issues End of Life 

We Put Off Planning, Until My Father-in-Law’s Medical Crisis Took Us by Surprise

August 20, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) Earlier this month, my husband picked up the phone and learned his 92-year-old

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Planning For End-Of-Life Care Is More Crucial Than Ever. Here’s How

July 9, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(By Katherine Harmon Courage for NPR) The coronavirus pandemic has been a stark reminder “that things can change in a minute

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‘I Couldn’t Let Her Be Alone’: A Peaceful Death Amid the COVID Scourge

July 6, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(By JoNel Aleccia for Kaiser Health News) As her mother lay dying in a Southern California hospital in early May,

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An experiment in end-of-life care: Tapping AI’s cold calculus to nudge the most human of conversations

July 2, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(By Rebecca Robbins for STAT) The daily email that arrived in physician Samantha Wang’s inbox at 8 a.m., just before

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End-Of-Life Planning Is A ‘Lifetime Gift’ To Your Loved Ones

June 30, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(By Kavitha Cardoza for NPR) Talking about death makes most of us uncomfortable, so we don’t plan for it. That’s a

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‘No Intubation’: Seniors Fearful Of COVID-19 Are Changing Their Living Wills

May 12, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) DENVER ― Last month, Minna Buck revised a document specifying her wishes should

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Emerging Health Issues End of Life Hospice/Home Health Services 

Palliative Care Helped Family Face ‘The Awful, Awful Truth’

May 5, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(By Will Stone for Kaiser Health News) Seattle mourned the news: Elizabeth and Robert Mar died of COVID-19 within a

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