{"id":6097,"date":"2017-03-09T08:59:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T13:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6097"},"modified":"2017-03-09T08:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T13:59:17","slug":"a-playbook-for-managing-problems-in-the-last-chapter-of-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6097","title":{"rendered":"A Playbook For Managing Problems In The Last Chapter Of Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO \u2014 At least once a day, Dr. Lee Ann Lindquist gets an urgent phone call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom fell and is in the hospital,\u201d a concerned middle-aged son might report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad got lost with\u00a0the car, and we need to stop him from driving,\u201d a distraught middle-aged daughter may explain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know what to do.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/a-playbook-for-managing-problems-in-the-last-chapter-of-your-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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