As people set New Year’s resolutions and plan for the future, health experts say advance care planning should be part of that ...

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia, thinking about the future can be daunting, as there’s a great deal of uncertainty. However, planning for ...

Data has shown that roughly one-quarter of traditional Medicare spending for healthcare is for services provided to Medicare beneficiaries in their last year of life—a proportion that has remained ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The study follows opinion pieces questioning the value of advance care planning. Previous studies had relied ...

Given their day-to-day, intimate interaction with residents, certified nursing assistants (CNAs) are uniquely positioned to contribute to care planning and interdisciplinary care team (IDT) meetings, ...

Healthcare professionals create care plans to help manage conditions such as pulmonary embolism. Planning may help improve outcomes and prevent future occurrences of the condition. Care plans are an ...

Advisors can think ahead of time about the common issues that clients face and how to address them; this can take shape in the form of a health care checklist. Along with the obvious financial ...

The Minimum Data Set (MDS) has been a driving force in many areas of the long-term care sector of healthcare for nearly 30 years. Beginning as an assessment tool to drive the care plan process, and ...

How to measure faculty clinical activity in a comprenhesive cancer center. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.

End-of-life planning refers to the steps a person takes to get their affairs in order and determine how they want to spend their last days. People may also refer to end-of-life planning as advance ...