Archive for September 2013

One of my friends and colleagues, a teacher and a lawyer whose whole life is about getting people to “open up” to him, when I ask about his end-of-life planning tells me “well, I’ve told each of my daughters more than once that if I don’t wake up some morning,“ I want them to know…

When a member of a faith community is dying the role of clergy is clear. At the end of life clergy is often present, and certainly ministering to the family at such times is an essential presence in faith based lives. However, long before the end of life when congregants are making health care plans,…

Kathy Hankel will tell you, emphatically, that “nurses have a rapport and trust with patients unlike any other in the health profession.” As a nurse and nurse educator, in a career that spans more than thirty years, Kathy has taken part in countless intimate patient conversations, and fully understands the unique role that nurses have…

The Parmenter Foundation, an Honoring Choices Massachusetts Community Partner is excited about its new Advance Care Planning Initiative, as an affirmative means to “improve the honoring of each person’s wishes for care throughout life and at the end of life,” says Cindy Mayher, The Parmenter Foundation’s Executive Director. According to Ms. Mayher they are actively…