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 ...

The long-term care system is a complicated ecosystem of care providers, care facilities, Medicare, Medicaid, long term care insurance, doctor’s appointments, nutrition, social interaction, mental ...

Implementing advance care planning consults can increase advance directive completion rates. The authors demonstrate the impact of consults on completed advance directives in the medical record.

Before being deployed overseas for the Iraq war in 2003, Army reservist Don Morrison filled out military forms that gave instructions about where to send his body and possessions if he were killed. "I ...

The coronavirus pandemic has been a stark reminder "that things can change in a minute — and so you've got to be prepared," says Sunita Puri, medical director for palliative care at the Keck Medical ...

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.