End-of-life decisions

Advance Health Care Directive

Posted by on April 13, 2012 at 9:49 am

National Health Care Decisions Day is April 16.  It is a great reminder to start the process of an advance health care directive for the people you care about and that care about you.  The older you get the more important an advance health care directive is, but even a young adult needs one as [...]

February 14 is National Donor Day

Posted by on February 9, 2012 at 9:24 pm

February 14 is National Donor Day. Donate organs, tissues, marrow, platelets and blood.

Read A Bittersweet Season

Posted by on July 4, 2011 at 8:46 pm

Family caregivers need to read A Bittersweet Season Caring for Our Aging Parents – and Ourselves by Jane Gross. The journalist who started The New York Times healthcare blog, The New Old Age, Jane takes the reader through the caregiving for her mother with her brother and every other resource she came across. Her mother had moved from New [...]

April 16 Is National Health Care Decisions Day

Posted by on April 10, 2011 at 8:30 am

National Health Care Decisions Day is a reminder to think about end-of-life decisions and making an Advance Health Care Directive.