Most of the research about retirement income planning focuses on two of the three major retirement risks: investment, or sequence, risk and longevity risk. The question to be answered is how well does ...

Dr. Elizabeth Golding from Cone Health Palliative Care Services talks about what you should include in your advance care plan ...

Medicare recognizes the importance of end-of-life planning and what you’d like your future care to look like. Its advance care planning benefit is part of your annual wellness appointment. During your ...

The figures are bracing: About half of people turning age 65 will require some type of paid long-term care in their lifetimes. Women will need 3.7 years of care, on average, while males will need an ...

Implementing advance care planning consults can increase advance directive completion rates. The authors demonstrate the impact of consults on completed advance directives in the medical record.

During a medical emergency or a serious illness or at the end of life, questions may arise about a patient’s medical treatment and how their care team should proceed. In instances where the patient is ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than a few clients who are retired or nearing retirement lie awake at night wondering how they would be able to afford the astronomical expense of long-term care such as a nursing home, which can ...

Comprehensive long-term care planning is about creating options. When you address these needs proactively, you maintain control over your choices and preserve your family's financial future. When most ...

Several triggers, such as consultations for malignancy and heart failure, noted in electronic health records (EHRs) of older adults were associated with mortality. The initiation of advance care ...

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