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EOL Healthcare Trends Highlighted in Issue Brief

The Center’s March 2013 issue brief, Healthcare at the End of Life: A Look at Current Trends, takes a look at EOL healthcare trends, including the use of palliative and hospice care, advance directives and other tools that help patients put end-of-life wishes to paper. With National Healthcare Decisions Day approaching on April 16, this publication is intended to provide a starting place for the difficult but important conversation about end-of-life care. Thanks to the evolution of our understanding about the needs of patients at the end of life, there are more options than ever available to ease the discomfort of patients and the sorrow of loved ones for terminally ill individuals.

Click the links below for end-of-life healthcare resources mentioned in our issue brief on EOL healthcare trends.

• Conversations that Light the Way (Midwest Care Alliance)
• Choices: Living Well at the End of Life (Midwest Care Alliance)
• Caring Connections
• The Conversation Project
• Put it in Writing Resources (American Hospital Association)

For more information on this issue brief on EOL healthcare trends, contact Deanna Moore at 216.255.3614 or dmoore@chanet.org.