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 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 ...

Tom Reynolds jokes that his doctors say he’s the “healthiest sick person we know.” The 71-year-old in Cocoa, Fla. resident has gone through 20 medical procedures. “I have not been a good steward of my ...

Nearly half of all older adults now die with a dementia diagnosis, up more than one-third (36 percent) in just the past two decades, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American ...

Hospital workers say they often see patients who are sick or injured and can’t speak for themselves but who have not previously told their family members what kind of care they want. Everyone should ...

Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. Before being deployed overseas for the Iraq War in 2003, Army reservist Don ...

As an emergency room physician, I’m used to working in a hectic environment. I have never experienced anything as heartbreaking and traumatic as the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s an intense and difficult ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

Access to palliative care for people with serious illness, i.e., those with serious medical conditions, functional impairment, and high health care utilization, has expanded greatly over the last ...

Talking about death makes most of us uncomfortable, so we don't plan for it. That's a big mistake, because if you don't have an end-of-life plan, your state's laws decide who gets everything you own.

People with serious illness or frailty in Oregon are more likely to have their end-of-life care wishes honored, and, consequently, less likely to be hospitalized and more likely to use home hospice ...

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 ...