Medicare recognizes the importance of end-of-life planning and what you’d like your future care to look like. Its advance care planning benefit is part of your annual wellness appointment. During your ...

How you approach end-of-life care for yourself or a loved one is a personal and important decision. You may consider hospice care, a death doula, or both to guide you during this time. Here’s what ...

When asked, most people say they want to spend their final days comfortable, in their own homes surrounded by family and friends, wrote Sen. Bill Frist, MD, in an opinion piece on Forbes. Yet, as a ...

The way Americans used to spend the last days, weeks and months of their lives was considerably different 40 years ago when Karen Ann Quinlan died after her parents fought in New Jersey to remove a ...

Around National Healthcare Decisions Day, held each April 16, End of Life Options New Mexico continues to lead the charge to educate and inform New Mexicans about the critical importance of advance ...

A suburban mom is hoping that lawmakers will pass a bill during their veto session in Springfield to allow for aid-in-dying medication for terminally ill patients. Suzy Flack’s son died after a battle ...

A new survey revealed that most doctors would decline aggressive treatments, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), ventilation, or tube feeding for themselves if faced with advanced cancer or ...

Photographs at the memorial for Barbara Filion at the Newcastle Commons on Sunday, June 8, 2024. Filion, who battled metastatic bone cancer for 14 years, advocated for medical aid in dying in New ...

Medicare acknowledges end-of-life planning as an important part of your healthcare. It has an “advance care planning” benefit, which a person can include as part of their annual wellness visit.