Timely, well-conducted conversations about goals of care in serious illness are associated with improved outcomes, including care aligned with the ill person’s values, less unwanted (and often expensive) care, improved satisfaction with care, and fewer mental health consequences for patients and families.
Children have also experienced the death of close relatives, but it often happens that we try to hide death from children in a misguided attempt to protect them. Far from helpful, this confuses children and prevents them from handling the pain of the loss they have suffered.
Please welcome death and grief educator, author, and public speaker Gail Rubin, aka The Doyenne of Death, as a guest contributor to the blog.
Please join us in welcoming author, podcast host, and end-of-life educator, and atheist chaplain Terri Daniel as a guest contributor to the blog.
Say hello to Althea Halchuck, FEN’s new surrogate consultant.
Does “getting your affairs in order” include planning your own funeral? Here’s why it should.
Advice from hospice physician Karen Wyatt to make sure your exit is on your terms.
Dave Warnock is a former fundamentalist evangelical Christian minister who rejected his faith and was later diagnosed with ALS. Here’s the first of a two-part conversation.
Only 10% of us will die in our sleep. For the rest, here is a list that can help facilitate a peaceful and painless exit.
