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Check out these local and national resources available when confronting difficult medical decisions in the face of illness and death.
Local Providers
Community Resources
Blog Posts
Reading List
Benvenuti, J. (2009) Don鈥檛 Give Up On Me! Supporting Aging Parents Successfully.
Brennan, M. (2015) The Heart of the Hereafter.
Broyard, A. (1993) Intoxicated by My Illness.
Bryant, H. (2016) I鈥檒l Have It My Way: Taking Control of End-of-Life Decisions.
Butler, K. (2013) Knocking on Heaven鈥檚 Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death.
Chast, Roz. (2014) Can鈥檛 We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Frankl, V. (1964) Man's Search for Meaning.
Gawande, A. (2014) Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.
Kalanithi, P. (2016) When Breath Becomes Air.
Lieberman, S. (2013) Death, Dying and Dessert: Reflections on Twenty Questions About Dying.
McCullough, D. M. (2009) My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing 鈥淪low Medicine鈥 - The Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved One. Nuland, S. (1995) How We Die.
Ritvo, M. (2016) Four Reincarnations.
Walrath, D. (2016) Aliceheimer鈥檚: Alzheimer鈥檚 Through the Looking Glass.
Wilber, K. (1991) Grace and Grit.
Zaner, D. (2004) Conversations on the Edge.
Questions to Consider
- What goals and priorities are most important to you in making medical decisions?
- If you are unable to speak for yourself, who will speak for you and do they know what you want?
- How are your wishes documented?
- What does a life lived well mean to you?
A narrative tool to help elicit a person鈥檚 preferences for end-of-life treatments in a way that is more rich and detailed than an advance directive.
In this video, we describe the purpose of eliciting and documenting people鈥檚 preferences for medical treatment, both in the end-of-life context and medical decision making well before the end of life. We define important advance care planning concepts, and we describe three types of advance directives in Texas.
In this video, we describe the importance for documenting people鈥檚 preferences for medical treatment, both in the end-of-life context and medical decision making well before the end of life. Importantly, we describe tips and strategies for how to have this conversation in way that will be received well by patients and families.
