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		<title>Healthcare Costs: End-of-Life  And Palliative Care</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This issue paper on end-of-life costs is authored by Mary Beth Morrissey, Esq., MPH, and Bruce Jennings, MA. Mary Beth Morrissey is affiliated with the Fordham University Ravazzin Center on Aging, West Harrison, NY,  and Bruce Jennings with the Center on Humans and Nature, NY, NY. Mary Beth and Bruce are both board members of the Westchester End of Life Coalition.]]></description>
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		<title>A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern medicine can keep people alive into their 9th and 10th decades, when in years past they would have succumbed to any number of conditions. Now a small but growing number of these people are asking why. What is the point of living so long if you can no longer enjoy living? What is the point of living until your mind turns to marshmallow and you are reduced to an existence that is less than human?]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors&#8217; Recognition of Approaching Death in Terminal Patients Seen Unreliable</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physician estimates of survival in terminally ill cancer patients are quite imprecise, especially for patients near death, according to findings published in the August 1st issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.]]></description>
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		<title>Terminal Patients Prefer Less Costly In-Home End-of-Life Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In-home palliative care for terminally ill patients can improve patient satisfaction while reducing medical care costs, researchers report in the July issue of the Journal of the American Geriatric Society. The team says the findings provide "strong evidence for reforming end-of-life care."]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Hospice &#8211; An Underutilized Option for Life&#8217;s Final Chapter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduced in the United States as a grassroots movement more than 30 years ago and added as a Medicare entitlement in 1983, hospice care is now considered part of mainstream medicine, as evidenced by growing patient enrollment and Medicare expenditures (see table). In 2005, more than 1.2 million Americans received hospice care, and between 2000 and 2004, the percentage of Medicare decedents that had been enrolled in hospice programs increased by almost 50%. But despite its increased use, many aspects of hospice care are still misunderstood by both physicians and patients.]]></description>
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		<title>Schiavo case points to need for health-care proxies, living wills</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2005 20:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local lawyers and health advocates say the life-and-death decisions being debated in the Terri Schiavo case should serve as a reminder to people of the importance of drawing up living wills and health-care proxies.

"It's definitely raising public awareness,'' Peekskill lawyer Donald Singer said. He said he's provided several clients with health-care proxies.]]></description>
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		<title>Unanticipated Turns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2005 20:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In tandem with the Sarah Lawrence College Health Advocacy Program, the coalition is drawing attention to New York's underused Health Care Proxy Law, which allows people 18 and over to appoint someone they trust to make health-care decisions [More...] for them in the event they lose the ability to make or communicate decisions on their own. An easy-to-fill-out form, available on the Web, allows New Yorkers to designate their proxy, the extent of the proxy's authority, and what kinds of treatments they favor or oppose.]]></description>
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		<title>Group urges signing of health care proxies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The End-of-Life Coalition, based in Bronxville, is using this true story about an area couple to promote the importance of health care proxies [More...] so that situations like this are avoided. The group is planning an upcoming, new, grass roots campaign called "Everybody Needs a Proxy," which aims to educate the public about health care proxies.]]></description>
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		<title>Chamber Breakfast Meeting Discusses Events; Introduces Westchester End of Life Coalition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bronxville Chamber of Commerce held a breakfast meeting on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 at Lawrence Hospital. One of the main topics of the meeting was the introduction of the Everybody Needs a Proxy campaign]]></description>
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