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Health Care Planning Made Simple
Posted on April 11, 2024 by Ellen DiPaola, JD in Advance Directives, Health care directivesA step-by-step process listing the important conversations and planning tools you need to get health care you want over your lifetime ...
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Posted on April 12, 2023 by Mary Crowe, LICSW, ACHP-SW, C.D.S., CDP in Advance Directives, Health care directivesHere's how you can be in more control about medical treatments you would or would not want if you were unable to express your health care wishes yourself. ...
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Why I Have a Health Care Proxy
Posted on April 13, 2022 by Mary McCormick-Gendzel in Advance Directives, Health care directivesA retired hospital nurse asks, since death is unavoidable, why not have some control over how it happens if you can? ...
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Memory of Mom Guides Health Care Planning
Posted on April 6, 2022 by Meghan Gardner in Advance Directives, Health care directivesA Care Dimensions hospice volunteer recalls how a special day with her mother inspired her to complete advance directives about her end-of-life wishes. ...
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How a Selfless Stranger Made My Family’s Happiness Possible
Posted on April 26, 2021 by Robin Gould in Advance Directives, Health care directivesFor double lung transplant recipient Craig Gould and his family, every day is a gift thanks to an organ donor. ...
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Don’t Let Pandemic Delay Advance Care Planning
Posted on April 15, 2021 by Catherine Duffy, NP, ACHPN in Advance Directives, Health care directivesThe COVID-19 pandemic opened a lot of eyes about advance care planning, yet many U.S. adults have not completed advance directive documents or had conversations with family and health care professionals about medical care preferences. ...
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Urgent: Make Your Health Care Wishes Known This Holiday Season
Posted on November 16, 2020 by Mary Crowe, LICSW, ACHP-SW, C.D.S, CDP in Advance DirectivesThe COVID-19 pandemic brings a new urgency to having conversations about your health care wishes, even if you cannot gather with loved ones this holiday season. ...
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Podcast: Advance Care Planning with Ellen DiPaola
Posted on July 8, 2020 by Mia Buscone in Advance Directives, Health care directives, PodcastIn this special episode of the Care Dimensions Learning Institute's podcast, host Mary Crowe discusses advance care planning with Ellen DiPaola, president and CEO of Honoring Choices Massachusetts. ...
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Podcast: Living with a Serious Ilness
Posted on April 15, 2020 by Mia Buscone in Advance Directives, Hospice, Learning Institute, Palliative Care, PodcastIn this latest episode of our podcast Living Forever, Not an Option, our hosts Mary Crowe and Lyn Skarmeas talk about the stress of receiving a diagnosis of a serious illness and why it's important to assemble a strong support team to help you assess all options for a care plan that is based on your goals and definition of quality of life. ...
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Advance Care Planning Critical During COVID-19 Pandemic
Posted on April 10, 2020 by Mary Crowe, LICSW, ACHP-SW, C.D.S. in Advance DirectivesAdvance care planning - especially for high-risk patient populations - is critical in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
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