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    Patients Want To Die At Home, But Home Hospice Care Can Be Tough On Families

    Jan 21, 2020
    The for-profit hospice industry has grown, allowing more Americans to die at home. But few family members realize that "hospice care" still means they'll do most of the physical and emotional work.
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    Ending A Life: Locals Look To Start Conversations About Death

    Oct 31, 2019

    Research suggests Nevada’s senior population could triple from 2000 to 2030. 

    Some call it the silver tsunami. And among the many challenges this aging nation faces is — how to die?  

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    From 2012 through 2016, federal health inspectors cited 87% of U.S. hospices for deficiencies. And 20% had lapses serious enough to endanger patients, according to two new reports from the HHS Inspector General's Office.
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    HHS Inspector General Finds Serious Flaws In 20% Of U.S. Hospice Programs

    Jul 08, 2019
    Two new reports from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have found widespread problems in hospice care and say the government needs to open its scorecards on hospice care to the public.
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    Belmont University's nursing program started hiring actors like Vickie James to help with their end-of-life simulations for students.
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    Morphine, And A Side Of Grief Counseling: Nursing Students Learn How To Handle Death

    Jan 19, 2019
    Research has found that university curriculum often goes light on one of life's universal experiences — dying. So some colleges have gone to new lengths to make the training more meaningful.
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    The Picture Show
    A few weeks after Javon Johnigan's shooting death on Sept. 3, 2016, his 8-year-old son Jamai demonstrates how he takes selfies with a life-size cutout of his father. Originally made for the funeral and the repast, Jamai keeps the cutout of his dad behind
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    'They Still Take Pictures With Them As If The Person's Never Passed'

    Jan 14, 2019
    In New Orleans, the lifelike representations have become a part of the city's tradition of social grieving and are a source of healing, especially in communities that have suffered from gun violence.
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    A moment from Embodied Labs' virtual reality video of Clay Crowder, a fictional 66-year-old man with incurable lung cancer. In this scene, Clay's family gathers around his bed, reassuring him that it's OK to let go of life.
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    Virtual Reality Helps Hospice Workers See Life And Death Through A Patient's Eyes

    Dec 27, 2018
    A Maine medical school and nearby hospice center are trying out a VR program aimed at fostering more empathy for dying patients among health workers-in-training. Not everyone is sold on the idea.
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    Shots - Health News
    Doctors in Miami found that a man's tattoo expressing his end-of-life wishes was more confusing than helpful.
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    When A Tattoo Means Life Or Death. Literally

    Jan 21, 2018
    A gravely ill man arrives at the hospital, alone and unconscious, with a tattoo across his chest: "Do Not Resuscitate." It sparks deep conversation about end-of-life care in America.
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    The Ruriden columbarium houses futuristic alters with glass Buddha statues that correspond to drawers storing the ashes of the deceased.
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    Ashes to Ashes, Dust to ... Interactive Biodegradable Funerary Urns?

    Aug 13, 2017
    Technology is fundamentally changing how we deal with death, memorials and human remains. One of the latest examples: A startup offers a smartphone-connected urn where ashes are used to grow a tree.
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    A recent study shows a link between high discharge rates for live patients and hospice profit margins.
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    Nearly 1 In 5 Hospice Patients Discharged While Still Alive

    Aug 11, 2017
    The hospices that discharge the most patients before their death also make the most money, a recent study shows.
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    Dr. Haider Warraich has written medical and opinion pieces for <em>The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal</em> and <em>The Atlantic.</em>
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    Doctor Considers The Pitfalls Of Extending Life And Prolonging Death

    Jan 30, 2017
    In Modern Death, Dr. Haider Warraich says a slow dying process, during which patients move in and out of hospitals or nursing homes, is a "very recent development in our history as a species."
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    Adox takes one last walk with family and friends in New York's Central Park before going to a hospital to be disconnected from the ventilator that kept him alive.
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    A Dying Man's Wish To Donate His Organs Gets Complicated

    Dec 26, 2016
    Dying in America doesn't always go the way we plan. One terminally ill man's hope to be disconnected from his respirator and donate his organs was almost thwarted, despite his best laid plans.
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    Anita Cameron, a board member of the group "Not Dead Yet," opposes Proposition 106.
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    Colorado Wrestles With Ethics Of Aid-In-Dying As Vote Looms

    Oct 11, 2016
    Colorado is the latest state to consider legalizing aid in dying. Residents find themselves struggling with whether assisted death is an act of mercy or a moral slippery slope.
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    By your side: Dr. Dean Tsai visits with Gary Gould, a hospice patient suffering from ALS.
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    Compassion crusade

    Jan 25, 2016

    Southwest Medical Associates Hospice forged its mission during the AIDS crisis. The crisis is over, but the mission lives on — with hospice house calls that bring comfort to the dying.

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    Goats and Soda
    A palliative care physician visits an HIV-positive patient who lost her family to the AIDS epidemic. She's resting on a mat outside her home.
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    How Uganda Came To Earn High Marks For Quality Of Death

    Jan 03, 2016
    It took a British doc, a simple recipe for liquid morphine and a lot of re-education.
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    Goats and Soda
    Dr. Odontuya Davaasuren, right, says that a good death is "being comfortable, being with loved people, listening to good words. Even an unconscious person listens, because hearing stops last."
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    How One Woman Changed The Way People Die In Mongolia

    Nov 05, 2015
    When Dr. Odontuya Davaasuren saw how much her father and mother suffered, she was determined to bring palliative care to her homeland.
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    Shots - Health News

    California Doctors Get Advice On How To Provide Aid In Dying

    Oct 13, 2015
    Now that California has legalized aid in dying, doctors there need to know what to say to patients. They're getting help from doctors in Oregon, who have been answering these questions for decades.
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    Having a loved one take at least two weeks off work increased the likelihood that terminally ill cancer patients could die at home.
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    To Die At Home, It Helps To Have Someone Who Can Take Time Off Work

    Oct 09, 2015
    A lot of things can affect whether a person can die at home as wished rather than in a hospital. One is whether a relative is able to take more than a few days off work to care for them.
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    Peggy Battin is a bioethicist whose husband faced the question after he was paralyzed in a bike accident.
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    Despite Sweeping Death-With-Dignity Law, Few Will Have That Option

    Oct 07, 2015
    People with uncertain prognoses or dementia can't end their lives under California's new medical aid in dying law. Proponents say those limits reflect the uncertainties of death, and of politics.
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    Shots - Health News
    Debbie Ziegler holds a photo of her late daughter, Brittany Maynard, after the California State Assembly approved a right-to-die measure on Sept. 9. Maynard died on Nov. 1, 2014.
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    California Governor Signs Landmark Right-To-Die Law

    Oct 05, 2015
    After months of impassioned debate over the ethics of physician-assisted suicide, California will become the fifth state to allow people who are terminally ill to hasten death with lethal drugs.
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    Passages: Caring is preparing

    Sep 24, 2015

    Expert answers to common questions about end-of-life issues.

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    Douglas Unger
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    Being there: On dying, death, and healing our lives

    Sep 24, 2015

    America is generally what Dr. Therese Rando, in her book, Grief, Death and Dying, terms a “death denying” society (as opposed to “death accepting” or “death-defying” societies).

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    Shots - Health News
    A photo of Brittany Maynard, who moved to Oregon to end her life as she was dying of brain cancer, sits on the dais of the California Senate's health committee in March.
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    Lacking Votes, California Assembly Shelves Aid In Dying Bill

    Jul 07, 2015
    Proponents of a bill that would let doctors give dying people lethal prescriptions ran into opposition from Latino Democrats. Backers say they're not through trying for approval.
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    Shots - Health News
    Rodgers uses abstract shapes of home and movement to evoke her father's journey to living in a hospital in<em> Liminal Space. </em>
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    A Woman Uses Art To Come To Terms With Her Father's Death

    May 04, 2015
    Artist Jennifer Rodgers' father was hospitalized for seven months with sepsis before he died. She used the creative process to try to comprehend his suffering and her loss.
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