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Palliative Care Psychiatry

July 17, 2012 | Jeff Goll, Eldercare Navigation

Palliative Care Psychiatry focuses on the emotional and social issues that arise in someone with an advanced illness. It is a relatively new discipline, growing out of the need for psychiatric and psychosocial care for patients with cancer and their … Continue reading →

Losing Touch With Death

February 21, 2012 | Kavan Peterson, Editor, ChangingAging.org

I missed this MUST-read op-ed from The Washington Post while I was abroad last week so I am urging all ChangingAging readers to read “Our unrealistic attitudes about death, through a doctor’s eyes” by Minneapolis physician Craig Bowron.

So many elements of this editorial have been echoed on ChangingAging that I don’t know where to begin praising Bowron’s critique of American attitudes and detachment from death and its implications on our approach to aging.

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