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It's up to us to begin the conversation

Advance care planning is a communication process be­tween the patient, his or her family, and health care providers to determine preferences for care should the patient become incapable of making health care decisions.... Read More

The new meaning of "residential care"

There was a time when residential care served as a place where elders with disability received basic, low-intensity medical and nursing care. Physicians did not need to visit more than once a month, as the patients were... Read More

Our patients-our mentors

Looking at medical school curricula over the centuries, end-of-life training is clearly a new phenomenon. From the time of the first medical schools physicians were counseled not to intervene with dying people. The... Read More