"Consider the Conversation: a documentary on a taboo subject"
If you attended the event hosted by Hospice of the Piedmont at the Paramount Theater on November 16, please share your feedback with us. Click here to send an email. Thank you for coming! We hope the following resources will be useful to you:
Are you caring for an aging parent?
Will you be responsible for your spouse in old age?
When you imagine the end of your life, what is the ideal scenario?
Do you know what your loved ones want?
Does anyone know what you want if you can't speak for yourself?
How do you make sure those wishes are honored?
Resources and additional information:
Websites:
Hospice of the Piedmont www.hopva.org
Consider the Conversation www.considertheconversation.org
National Healthcare Decisions Day www.nhdd.org
Caring Connections www.caringinfo.org
Medicare Hospice Benefit www.medicare.gov
CaringBridge www.caringbridge.org
Books:
The End-of-Life Advisor: Personal, Legal, and Medical Considerations for a Peaceful, Dignified Death, Susan Dolan, RN, JD & Audrey R. Vizzard, RN, EdD
From the Start Consider the Finish: A Guide to Excellent End of Life Care, Susan Dolan, RN, JD & Audrey R. Vizzard, RN, EdD
Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System, Stephen Kiernan
Dying Well, Ira Byock
The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book About Living, Ira Byock
The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest To Transform Care Through The End of Life, Ira Byock
Caregiving: Hospice-Proven Techniques for Healing Body and Soul, Douglas C. Smith
Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care, Nicholas A. Christakis
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality, Pauline W. Chen
A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves, Jane Cross
Online Articles:
Preparing for Life's Final Stage
Why this Wisconsin City is the Best Place to Die
La Crosse Health Care Could be Model for National Reform
Debate Over End-of-Life Care Began in Small Midwestern Town
Overcoming Unconscious Incompetence: Improving Specialty Resident Education
Law on End-of-Life Care Rankles Doctors
The Palliative Care Information Act in Real Life
Frank Talk About Care At Life's End
In Medicare's Data Trove, Clues to Curing Cost Crisis
The Hot Spotters: Can We Lower Medical Costs by Giving the Neediest Better Care?
Death Panels Haunt Health Care Debate
From Butterflies, Lessons About Life and Death
End-of-Life Care: How You (MDs) Can Help Stressed Surrogates
Caring for Terminally Ill Starts with a Talk
Trends and Variation in End-of-Life Care for Medicare Beneficiaries with Severe Chronic Illness
U.S. Alters Rule on Paying for End-of-Life Planning
America's Health Care Addiction
Tracking the Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness
100 things, leading to a single choice
Allowing natural death vs. “Do Not Resuscitate” (scroll down to page 3)
Death trap: A Vermont-reporter-turned advocate spreads the gospel of dying well
Doing death better: How we deal with the end of life
The dying of the light: The drawn-out indignities of the American way of death
Advanced dementia: Managing the burden
The case for killing granny: rethinking end-of-life care
Facing End-of-Life Talks, Doctors Choose to Wait
Testimony on House Bill 304 on Physician Assisted Suicide
End-of-Life Issues Need to be Addressed
At the End, Offering Not a Cure but Comfort
What Price for Medical Miracles?
The cost conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care
Letting go: What should medicine do when it can't save your life?
Why doctors need more education about the end-of-life