Tag Archives: End-of-Life Planning

Mortality Risk Assessment: A Tool for Planning End-of-Life Care

Nurse practitioners make inroads in advanced care planning

A recent study from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners shows that sharing realistic information with patients about their medical prognosis helps facilitate discussions about end-of-life care. The study, published in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners … Continue reading

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Medicare Will Reimburse Patients for End-of-Life Consultations

Under the Affordable Care Act, Medicare may start covering expenses for patients seeking palliative options

According to the American Medical Association, patients nearing the end of their lives are entitled to expect and receive certain advice and treatment from health care professionals. This includes the opportunity to make appropriate plans, including the creation of a … Continue reading

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Our Weekly Tip: The Importance of Including Digital Assets into Estate Planning

During the estate planning process, it’s important to remember to include your digital assets

Our Tip of the Week: Estate planning can be an overwhelming process. Oftentimes, we do not know the exact moment when death will approach. Therefore, it is very important to plan the futures for all types of your assets, especially … Continue reading

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Our Weekly Tip: The Devil is in the Details

In the process of estate planning, it is often the personal items that become the most controversial

Our Tip of the Week: Estate planning can be a difficult undertaking, as it involves a lot of deep work to think about what happens when you are no longer there to take care of your loved ones. There are … Continue reading

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The House Awaiting Death

If you could build a house just for the dying process, what would it look like? EASTERN Design Office shows us.

“A house awaiting death,” the client said to us, “I will die in 15 years [and] it will be a house awaiting that death. When I die it won’t be sunset, it will be sunrise. When the final moment comes, … Continue reading

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Project Womb

What happens when you mix philosophy, technology and end of life? You get Project Womb, a "media-driven time capsule" and contemporary casket

“After birth, the second biggest event in life is death. And, yet, across cultures, our relationship with it seems based on avoidance and denial. We asked ourselves, ‘why isn’t death treated as naturally and gracefully as birth?’” These were the … Continue reading

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