{"id":16417,"date":"2020-07-09T08:15:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16417"},"modified":"2020-07-09T08:15:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T12:15:11","slug":"planning-for-end-of-life-care-is-more-crucial-than-ever-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16417","title":{"rendered":"Planning For End-Of-Life Care Is More Crucial Than Ever. Here&#8217;s How"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Katherine Harmon Courage for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus pandemic has been a stark reminder &#8220;that things can change in a minute \u2014 and so you&#8217;ve got to be prepared,&#8221; says Sunita Puri, medical director for palliative care at the Keck Medical Center at USC. One of the ways to do this is to decide what sorts of treatments you would want (or not want) in the case you became critically ill \u2014 and then document those wishes and share them with loved ones.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/07\/09\/865570384\/planning-for-end-of-life-care-is-more-crucial-than-ever-heres-how\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Katherine Harmon Courage for NPR) The coronavirus pandemic has been a stark reminder &#8220;that things can change in a minute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-end-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16418,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16417\/revisions\/16418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}