I’ve put together a survey for you and anyone else who may be interested. The topic is living wills and advance directives. I am looking for information that tells me how many people have living wills, who doesn’t and what may be holding back people from drawing one up.
I invite you to complete the short [...]

Finding palliative care services could be as easy as your doctor referring you to the local unit or it may require some detective work on your part.
When Palliative Care is Mentioned
When someone is being treated for a terminal or chronic illness, there may be a point when the doctor or another member of the [...]

If you’ve ever visited a palliative care unit or a hospice, you may have noticed that it’s not the depressing, sad, dark place that many people imagine it to be. The very phrase, death and dying, does bring that to mind. Without a doubt, there are people dying and there are people mourning within those [...]

When someone is dying of a fatal or chronic illness, decisions have to be made about many things, especially about the death itself. One of the most important question is: “how hard to we try to prolong life?” The decision may be for your own life or it may be for someone you are caring [...]

As we all age and as doctors are able to cure more diseases, we in the Western world aren’t dying as young. We are living longer, sometimes with chronic or fatal diseases. This puts us in a position where we may be alive but may not be mentally capable of deciding on what sort of [...]