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January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
RWJF spent two decades working on end-of-life issues in the United States. Through multiple partnerships and collaborations, the field of end-of-life care underwent significant change and improvement.
July 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Advance directives—an individual's instructions for medical decision-making if the individual is not competent to make decisions—have not met expectations since their introduction about 25 years ago. The authors discuss problems with advance directi ...
November 22, 2009 | Story
CBS' 60 Minutes reports that many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit, subjected to uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prolong their lives at enormous cost.
October 15, 2009 | Program Result
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a program to identify, promote and institutionalize care practices that allow seriously ill people and their families to approach the end of life in physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional comfort.
April 12, 2004 | Program Result
From 1999 to 2003, the Washington-based Partnership for Caring (formerly Choice in Dying) explored how healthcare agents-and the individuals who appoint them-view the role and responsibilities of healthcare agents in making end-of-life treatment decisions.
October 14, 2004 | Program Result
In the period 1999–2002, staff at the Hospice for the Carolinas (later renamed the Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care), Cary, N.C. helped establish a statewide coalition, the North Carolina End-of-Life Care Coalition.
October 1, 2004 | Program Result
Staff and consultants with the Commission on Aging with Dignity, a nonprofit organization in Tallahassee, Fla., revised and disseminated the Five Wishes advance directive, which is designed to help people write down their wishes about end-of-life care and discuss them with family members and physicians.
December 1, 2000 | Program Result
Population Communications International (PCI) – now called PCI-Media Impact – organized a 1999 summit of leaders in the television community to discuss new approaches to portraying health issues within the context of their programs. One of the health issues was death and dying.
December 1, 1998 | Program Result
The Florida Commission on Aging with Dignity, a privately funded nonprofit in Tallahassee, Fla., held a series of five community forums in Florida in 1996 and 1997 on a variety of aging and end-of-life issues.
June 15, 2009 | Story
The 2009 Ladder class discovers a new way to support patients, families and health care professionals.