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A Different Way to Talk about End-of-Life Preferences

Posted on: 2013 07 26

Here’s a great New York Times article about an experiment to increase discussion and planning about end-of-life care. We usually approach these kinds of conversations within the family, trying to get elders and their children to bring up the difficult topic of end-of-life. There are numerous websites, how-to books and articles but it doesn’t seem to be working and we are still woefully unprepared. In 2005, only about 29{12470e0fe01d1e6fcc7df4df95300bd13a27d9338be1c3cc41e39732a8d70917} of us had a living will. Dr. Larkin of The University of California in San Francisco took a different approach to end-of-life planning discussions. He and his colleagues decided to incentive doctors to ask the important questions. And it worked! You can read about the experiment and its results here: http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/a-novel-way-to-document-end-of-life-preferences/

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