LIFE IN THE END ZONE

This week, the Massachusetts Coalition for Serious Illness Care released the results of a survey of state residents about advance care pla...

Over the past ten years, people with advanced dementia have gradually come to be recognized as dying. Death may not come in a day or a mont...

Congress first created the Medicare hospice benefit in 1982. During the first full year after the law went into effect, only 200 Medicare p...

The Veterans Health Administration, as its website reminds us, is the largest integrated health care system in the US, where “integrated” i...

This past week, the House passed its “ Right to Try ” bill, which would give dying patients easier access to experimental drugs. The Senate ...

         Researchers at the University of Michigan surveyed just over 2000 people between the ages of 50 and 80 to find out whether they t...

This week, I was interviewed  by Rabbi Richard Address on his program addressing the consequences of the longevity revolution for baby boome...

                For over thirty years, we’ve been arguing about when medical care is “futile.” The debate began in the 1980s, when the most...