Family, Friends and Patients Area
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This area of the CDF website provides a multitude of palliative care and end-of-life resources for patients, caregivers and family members. If you have a story, letter or poem that you would like to share, please use the "submit content" link at the bottom of the left side bar.
Latest Content
Geripal Blog: "Thoughts on Preventative Medicine"
Tuesday December 1, 2009:
You can prevent Heart Attacks
You can prevent Strokes
You can...
Geripal Blog: "Penalizing Hospitals for Readmissions: Unintended Consequences?"
Tuesday December 1, 2009: Medicare recently started publicly reporting hospital readmission...
Palliative Care Success Blog: "Engage with Grace-- Communicating End-of-Life Wishes"
Some conversations are easier than others
Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers...
Geripal Blog: "How should costs fit into the conversation about end-of-life care?"
November 23, 2009: Diane Meier just tweeted: "60 minutes misses the point- palliative...
Geripal Blog: Dying in 14 Minutes of 60 Minutes
November 22, 2009: CBS did a segment entitled "The Cost Of Dying" on...
Terminally Ill and Suicide
Joan Bakewell discusses the real-life case of Mary, a terminally-ill woman in her 80s. She has...
Bridget Duffy on the Patient Experience: Gel Health Conference 2009
This Gel Video is of Bridget Duffy speaking at the 2009 Gel Health conference. She talks...
Video: CBS 60 Minutes, "The Cost of Dying"
CBS's 60 minutes recently spent time with the Palliative Care Team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital...
New Health Dialogue Blog: Dying Well Beats Dying Badly. And Expensively
This post from Joanne Kenen on November 20, 2009 reviews some recent news in palliative care...
The New Health Dialogue Blog: "Health Care: Time for a Serious Discussion
This link is to a guest blog post (November 6, 2009) by Dr. Ira Byock, director of palliative...