Australian intensive care physician, Peter Saul, recently presented a TED Talk about the increased chance of dying in intensive care in the 21st Century. He explains that one ten people will die in intensive care, but in the United States it is one in …
Continue ReadingWhen my mom picked up A Daughter’s Long Goodbye: Caring for Mother at the church library, she brought it home and quickly read it cover to cover. Then she suggested that I read it — well actually she instructed me to do so. Caring for Mothe…
Continue ReadingRead the March 7, 2012 Atlantic article, Making the Best of What is Often the Very Worst Time of Our Lives. Whether we are helping to support aging parents right now or thinking about the years when we become elderly adults, we all know the situation. This piece is an excerpt from the book, “The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life,” by Ira Byock, the director or palliative medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Continue ReadingIf you missed the Michel Martin’s Tell Me More on Monday, January 23, 2012, head over to the program’s website to hear Jane Gross talk about her book, A Bittersweet Season: Caring For Our Aging Parents and Ourselves. Her conversation cover…
Continue ReadingIn case you missed this news on December 7, 2011, you may want to learn more about the new Virginia health care directive registry. It’s a free service. This article, Virginia Announces Free Online Health Care Registry, appeared on Richmond’…
Continue ReadingHow sad is this? I guess it is not surprising that conversations with families about end-of-life and time left to a sick person still are not direct and clear for everyone. Click on the image below and read the November 16, 2011 New York Times New Ol…
Continue ReadingMany years ago, shortly after my daughter was born, my parents asked my husband and me about our will. It turned out, however, that they were less concerned about a will than they were about whether we had signed medical directives or health care prox…
Continue Reading“SHE LIVED — AND DIED — JUST THE WAY SHE WANTED”
The more I read, the longer I live, the more I understand how important it is to prepare for death.
Thanks to the conversations I’ve had — first and most importantly with myself and then with my kids…
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