These issues also have long been of personal interest to me.
About one-quarter of Medicare funds are spent on care at the end of life that is geared toward expensive high-tech inter...
Thanks to the Retirement Research Foundation, Maine's coalition received a three-year grant to develop their POLST Progr...
But, in fact, they also, as your Five Wishes document shows, can be used to direct the kind of care that they do want to...
Patients and their families should not have to fear that the process of dying will be marked by preventable pain.
patients and their families should be able to trust that the care that they receive in their final days is not only of h...
We should be respecting individuals' wishes.
I do not know that we should be encouraging college students to fill out advance directives and POLST orders.
Americans are the only people on earth who believe that death is negotiable.
We have to make sure that everyone understands their options.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the Highway Trust Fund will become insolvent in fiscal year 2015.