Take control of your future by integrating end-of-life care planning. Learn how to ensure your wishes are respected and reduce the burden on your loved ones.

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia, thinking about the future can be daunting, as there’s a great deal of uncertainty. However, planning for ...

Data has shown that roughly one-quarter of traditional Medicare spending for healthcare is for services provided to Medicare beneficiaries in their last year of life—a proportion that has remained ...

Advisors can think ahead of time about the common issues that clients face and how to address them; this can take shape in the form of a health care checklist. Along with the obvious financial ...

Given their day-to-day, intimate interaction with residents, certified nursing assistants (CNAs) are uniquely positioned to contribute to care planning and interdisciplinary care team (IDT) meetings, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The study follows opinion pieces questioning the value of advance care planning. Previous studies had relied ...

Healthcare professionals create care plans to help manage conditions such as pulmonary embolism. Planning may help improve outcomes and prevent future occurrences of the condition. Care plans are an ...

End of life planning is an important way to ease the burden on your loved ones and make your medical and financial wishes known for your final days. From the documents you’ll need to the professionals ...

The Minimum Data Set (MDS) has been a driving force in many areas of the long-term care sector of healthcare for nearly 30 years. Beginning as an assessment tool to drive the care plan process, and ...

How to measure faculty clinical activity in a comprenhesive cancer center. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.

The ABA Commission on Law and Aging and partner organizations have developed an Advance Care Planning set of guiding principles and a practical checklist for lawyers aimed at improving the advance ...

Follicular Lymphoma Cells Induce Changes in T-Cell Gene Expression and Function: Potential Impact on Survival and Risk of Transformation We agree that if SCPs are to become a standard of care, their ...