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A site about death, dying, grief, and loss; about caregiving or living with chronic or life-threatening illness; and about positive and realistic approaches to aging. Reading up on end-of-life activities often surprises people, kick-starting their interest in activities that are better done before they are nearly pushing up daisies. Even bereavement and loss may help us grow. And there are links to practical advice here for each step along the way.
Advance directives, living wills, Medicare, and other practical matters
---Getting your affairs in order
---Documents to protect your and your survivors' rights and wishes
---Documents and information to keep together, easily findable (personal, financial, and legal)
---Advance directives, POLSTs, living wills, health care (medical) proxies
---Wills, trusts, legacies, and estates
--- Eldercare planning resources
---Elder law, elder protection, and pension rights organizations
---Preventing elder abuse and scams (and being aware of senior guardianship problems)
---Planning for long-term care and end-of-life preferences
---End-of-life planning and document storage sites
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---Getting your affairs in order
---Documents to protect your and your survivors' rights and wishes
---Documents and information to keep together, easily findable (personal, financial, and legal)
---Advance directives, POLSTs, living wills, health care (medical) proxies
---Wills, trusts, legacies, and estates
--- Eldercare planning resources
---Elder law, elder protection, and pension rights organizations
---Preventing elder abuse and scams (and being aware of senior guardianship problems)
---Planning for long-term care and end-of-life preferences
---End-of-life planning and document storage sites
Aging with grace
---Positive aging (finding fulfillment in the golden years)
---Enjoying lifelong learning (MOOCs, OLLI, Great Courses, TED talks, and the like)
---Reminiscence, life review, and life storytelling
---Managing modern life (and electronics)
---Facing tough issues
---Connection? or loneliness?
---Traveling in retirement (and otherwise)
---The new landscape of intimate relationships
---Managing a healthy weight
---Exercise
---Preventing falls
---Preventing and dealing with frailty
---Nutrition
---Memory
---Cognitive skills and development
---Bladder control and related problems
---Knee replacement and other fixes for body parts
---Research on aging
---Books and movies about our new peer group
---If I had my life to live over
---Positive aging (finding fulfillment in the golden years)
---Enjoying lifelong learning (MOOCs, OLLI, Great Courses, TED talks, and the like)
---Reminiscence, life review, and life storytelling
---Managing modern life (and electronics)
---Facing tough issues
---Connection? or loneliness?
---Traveling in retirement (and otherwise)
---The new landscape of intimate relationships
---Managing a healthy weight
---Exercise
---Preventing falls
---Preventing and dealing with frailty
---Nutrition
---Memory
---Cognitive skills and development
---Bladder control and related problems
---Knee replacement and other fixes for body parts
---Research on aging
---Books and movies about our new peer group
---If I had my life to live over
Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia and memory loss
---Caring for patients with dementia
---Alzheimer's disease
---Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
---Lewy body dementia
---Dementia signs, symptoms, testing and diagnosis
---Dementia support groups and research organizations
---Blogs about dementia
---Helpful books about dementia
---Films, documentaries, and shorts about dementia[Back to Top]
---Caring for patients with dementia
---Alzheimer's disease
---Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
---Lewy body dementia
---Dementia signs, symptoms, testing and diagnosis
---Dementia support groups and research organizations
---Blogs about dementia
---Helpful books about dementia
---Films, documentaries, and shorts about dementia
Autism spectrum disorders
---Understanding Autism
---Asperger's syndrome
---Savant syndrome
---Being practical
---Stories of individuals with autism
---Parents' and siblings' stories
---Organizations focused on or helpful about autism
---Blogs about autism
---About autism and vaccines
---Understanding Autism
---Asperger's syndrome
---Savant syndrome
---Being practical
---Stories of individuals with autism
---Parents' and siblings' stories
---Organizations focused on or helpful about autism
---Blogs about autism
---About autism and vaccines
Bereavement, grief, and recovery
(letting go, but remembering)
---How to comfort the grieving
---Understanding bereavement, grief, and recovery
---Grieving the loss of a child
---Books about grieving the loss of a child
---Grieving the loss of a pet
---Grief support groups
---Online grief, bereavement, and mourning sites, forums, and discussion groups
---Complicated and disenfranchised grief and ambiguous loss
---Death, dying, and grief in the age of social media
---Selections about grief and recovery (from Pat's anthology, Dying: A Book of Comfort)
(letting go, but remembering)
---How to comfort the grieving
---Understanding bereavement, grief, and recovery
---Grieving the loss of a child
---Books about grieving the loss of a child
---Grieving the loss of a pet
---Grief support groups
---Online grief, bereavement, and mourning sites, forums, and discussion groups
---Complicated and disenfranchised grief and ambiguous loss
---Death, dying, and grief in the age of social media
---Selections about grief and recovery (from Pat's anthology, Dying: A Book of Comfort)
Blog posts, index of (by category)
---Index of blog posts
---You, your body, and your health
---Health care, medicine, and the healthcare system
---How we die (managing and honoring the end of life)
---Life, home, and estate management
---Telling our life stories
---Wisdom and entertainment
---Index of blog posts
---You, your body, and your health
---Health care, medicine, and the healthcare system
---How we die (managing and honoring the end of life)
---Life, home, and estate management
---Telling our life stories
---Wisdom and entertainment
Books and movies about aging, illness, disability
---Books and movies about aging and elders
---Films about aging
---Fiction about aging, illness, and dementia
---Memoirs of coping with chronic, rare, or invisible diseases, including mental health
---Memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differentness, and survival
---Books about chronic or invisible diseases and conditions
---Books about cancer
---Healing: Stories of courage, inspiration, and other coping attitudes (short pieces, online)
---Helpful books about dementia
---Books by, for, and about caregivers and caregiving
---Books on medicine, health care, and caregiving -- for patients and caregivers
---For your medical reference shelf[Back to Top]
Books and movies about death and dying, grief and loss
---Best adult books about death, dying, loss, and grief
---Books about grieving the loss of a child
---Children's picture books about death and loss
---Movies about death, dying, funerals, farewells, departures[Back to Top]
---Books and movies about aging and elders
---Films about aging
---Fiction about aging, illness, and dementia
---Memoirs of coping with chronic, rare, or invisible diseases, including mental health
---Memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differentness, and survival
---Books about chronic or invisible diseases and conditions
---Books about cancer
---Healing: Stories of courage, inspiration, and other coping attitudes (short pieces, online)
---Helpful books about dementia
---Books by, for, and about caregivers and caregiving
---Books on medicine, health care, and caregiving -- for patients and caregivers
---For your medical reference shelf
Books and movies about death and dying, grief and loss
---Best adult books about death, dying, loss, and grief
---Books about grieving the loss of a child
---Children's picture books about death and loss
---Movies about death, dying, funerals, farewells, departures
Cardiovascular disease (and prevention)
Heart and coronary conditions and care
---General information about cardiovascular health and disease
---Preventing and surviving heart attacks
---Preventing, treating, and surviving strokes
---Heart disease in women
---Heart surgery
---Pros and cons of various tests, treatments, habits
---The statin wars
---Hypertension and blood pressure issues
---Evidence-based cardiovascular care
---Eminence-based medicine
---Books and other resources about heart, stroke, and other cardiovascular disease
Heart and coronary conditions and care
---General information about cardiovascular health and disease
---Preventing and surviving heart attacks
---Preventing, treating, and surviving strokes
---Heart disease in women
---Heart surgery
---Pros and cons of various tests, treatments, habits
---The statin wars
---Hypertension and blood pressure issues
---Evidence-based cardiovascular care
---Eminence-based medicine
---Books and other resources about heart, stroke, and other cardiovascular disease
Caregivers, caregiving, long-term care, and caregiver burnout
---Resources for caregivers
---Caring for patients with dementia
---Caring for caregivers (preventing caregiver burnout)
---Online communities for caregivers
---Other helpful organizations
---Key documents caregivers may need
---Books by, for, and about caregivers
---Books about caregiving for elders
---Books about medicine and healthcare--to help patients and caregivers understand the professionals they will depend on
---General medical reference books
---Resources for caregivers
---Caring for patients with dementia
---Caring for caregivers (preventing caregiver burnout)
---Online communities for caregivers
---Other helpful organizations
---Key documents caregivers may need
---Books by, for, and about caregivers
---Books about caregiving for elders
---Books about medicine and healthcare--to help patients and caregivers understand the professionals they will depend on
---General medical reference books
Charitable giving and volunteering
(and donating your body or body parts)
---Volunteering
---Charity ratings
---Tips on charitable giving
---Rethinking charity
---Teaching the next generation about giving
---Practicing philanthropy: giving to make a difference
---Worst practices in charity world
---Donating your body or body parts
---Organ and tissue transplants
(and donating your body or body parts)
---Volunteering
---Charity ratings
---Tips on charitable giving
---Rethinking charity
---Teaching the next generation about giving
---Practicing philanthropy: giving to make a difference
---Worst practices in charity world
---Donating your body or body parts
---Organ and tissue transplants
COPING WITH CANCER
---Cancer blogs and stories of personal encounters with cancer
---Books about cancer
---Memoirs about struggling with cancer
---General information and approaches to treatment
---Chemotherapy
---Immunotherapy
---Fighting cancer by eating the right food
---Tools for coping
---Cancer research, education, and advocacy organizations
---Researching cancer (where to look for info and advice)
---Cancer support groups
---Finding support for the family
---Finding financial support for cancer care
---Make-a-Wish and other wish fulfillment organizations
---Comforting a person who has cancer
---Finding hospitals and cancer centers
---Cancer by the numbers (e.g., survival rates, incidence)
---Checking out clinical trials
---Understanding the debate on cancer-related health care reform and health policy
---Types of cancer, sites listing and describing
---Specific types of cancer
---Bone cancer
---Brain tumors, brain cancer, and aneurysms (no, aneurysms aren't cancers)
---Breast cancer
---Colon and colorectal cancer
---Kidney cancer
---Leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, and other blood cancers
---Lung cancer
---Melanoma and other skin cancers
---Multiple myeloma
---Ovarian, cervical, and other gynecological/reproductive system cancers
---Pancreatic cancer
---Prostate cancer
---Rare types of cancer
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---Cancer blogs and stories of personal encounters with cancer
---Books about cancer
---Memoirs about struggling with cancer
---General information and approaches to treatment
---Chemotherapy
---Immunotherapy
---Fighting cancer by eating the right food
---Tools for coping
---Cancer research, education, and advocacy organizations
---Researching cancer (where to look for info and advice)
---Cancer support groups
---Finding support for the family
---Finding financial support for cancer care
---Make-a-Wish and other wish fulfillment organizations
---Comforting a person who has cancer
---Finding hospitals and cancer centers
---Cancer by the numbers (e.g., survival rates, incidence)
---Checking out clinical trials
---Understanding the debate on cancer-related health care reform and health policy
---Types of cancer, sites listing and describing
---Specific types of cancer
---Bone cancer
---Brain tumors, brain cancer, and aneurysms (no, aneurysms aren't cancers)
---Breast cancer
---Colon and colorectal cancer
---Kidney cancer
---Leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, and other blood cancers
---Lung cancer
---Melanoma and other skin cancers
---Multiple myeloma
---Ovarian, cervical, and other gynecological/reproductive system cancers
---Pancreatic cancer
---Prostate cancer
---Rare types of cancer
Coping with chronic, rare, and invisible diseases and disorders
(specific conditions in alphabetical order)
---Specific conditiobs, in alphabetical order
---Managing chronic pain
---Rare and undiagnosed diseases and conditions
---Memoirs of coping with chronic, rare, or invisible diseases, including mental health problems
---Coping with invisible chronic illnesses and conditions
(specific conditions in alphabetical order)
---Specific conditiobs, in alphabetical order
---Managing chronic pain
---Rare and undiagnosed diseases and conditions
---Memoirs of coping with chronic, rare, or invisible diseases, including mental health problems
---Coping with invisible chronic illnesses and conditions
Death, dying, and end-of-life care
---Helping a dying friend
---Improving end-of-life care
---Practical aspects of end-of-life care and decision-making
---Saying goodbye
---When is someone legally dead?
---End-of-life planning and choices for pets
---Complex and difficult endings--suicide, homicide, physician-assisted suicide, violence (including domestic violence), sudden death (from accidents and otherwise), dementia and other forms of lingering illness
---Stories about death and dying (including the "good death" and dying with dignity)
---Hospice care and palliative care (don't wait too late!)
---Bereavement, grief, and recovery
---Stages of grief ("The only way out is through.")
---Selections from DYING: A Book of Comfort
---Near-death experiences (crossing over)
---Death cafes (events, not venues--facilitating conversations about dying)
---Statistics about death, mortality, long-term care, hospice care, and palliative care
---Movies about death and dying
---Order DYING: A Book of Comfort
---Funerals, cremation, home funerals, green burial, memorial services
---Music for funerals and memorial services
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---Helping a dying friend
---Improving end-of-life care
---Practical aspects of end-of-life care and decision-making
---Saying goodbye
---When is someone legally dead?
---End-of-life planning and choices for pets
---Complex and difficult endings--suicide, homicide, physician-assisted suicide, violence (including domestic violence), sudden death (from accidents and otherwise), dementia and other forms of lingering illness
---Stories about death and dying (including the "good death" and dying with dignity)
---Hospice care and palliative care (don't wait too late!)
---Bereavement, grief, and recovery
---Stages of grief ("The only way out is through.")
---Selections from DYING: A Book of Comfort
---Near-death experiences (crossing over)
---Death cafes (events, not venues--facilitating conversations about dying)
---Statistics about death, mortality, long-term care, hospice care, and palliative care
---Movies about death and dying
---Order DYING: A Book of Comfort
---Funerals, cremation, home funerals, green burial, memorial services
---Music for funerals and memorial services
Depression and other forms of mental illness
Including bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), OCD, schizophrenia, and PTSD
---General help and information
---Approaches to treatment
---The system: Issues affecting the treatment of mental illness
---ADHD, ADD, and other problems with inconsistent (sometimes hyperfocused) attention
---Anxiety and phobias
---Bipolar disorder (manic depressive illness)
---Borderline personality disorder
---Children's mental health
---Cutting and self-harm
---Depression, including Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
---Eating disorders
---Marcissistic personality disorder
---Obsessive-compulsive disorder (O.C.D.),
including hoarding behavior
---Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
---Schizophrenia
---Substance abuse
---Mental health organizations
Including bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), OCD, schizophrenia, and PTSD
---General help and information
---Approaches to treatment
---The system: Issues affecting the treatment of mental illness
---ADHD, ADD, and other problems with inconsistent (sometimes hyperfocused) attention
---Anxiety and phobias
---Bipolar disorder (manic depressive illness)
---Borderline personality disorder
---Children's mental health
---Cutting and self-harm
---Depression, including Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
---Eating disorders
---Marcissistic personality disorder
---Obsessive-compulsive disorder (O.C.D.),
including hoarding behavior
---Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
---Schizophrenia
---Substance abuse
---Mental health organizations
Difficult endings
---End-of-life decision-making
---End-of-life decision-making in the critical care unit
---Death with dignity (assisted-dying laws, etc.)
---Assisted dying and VSED (voluntarily stopping eating and drinking)
---'Right to Try' legislation (allowing terminally ill patients to access experimental drugs)
---Euthanasia (physician-assisted dying)
---Suicide and suicide prevention
---Books about suicide (and surviving a suicide)
---Helpful organizations and online resources
---Useful general links
---How to tell children their parent is dying
---Grieving the loss of a child
---Complex and Difficult Endings: A Reading List
---End-of-life decision-making
---End-of-life decision-making in the critical care unit
---Death with dignity (assisted-dying laws, etc.)
---Assisted dying and VSED (voluntarily stopping eating and drinking)
---'Right to Try' legislation (allowing terminally ill patients to access experimental drugs)
---Euthanasia (physician-assisted dying)
---Suicide and suicide prevention
---Books about suicide (and surviving a suicide)
---Helpful organizations and online resources
---Useful general links
---How to tell children their parent is dying
---Grieving the loss of a child
---Complex and Difficult Endings: A Reading List
Downsizing, decluttering, moving, and other hard-to-face realities
---Downsizing and decluttering (letting go of things)
---Selling or recycling books, etc.
---Being, dealing with, or trying to help a hoarder
---Estate, garage, and yard sales, etc.
---Organizing and dealing with things and information
---Moving: Senior move managers and other specialists
---Cleaning and household tips
---Downsizing and decluttering (letting go of things)
---Selling or recycling books, etc.
---Being, dealing with, or trying to help a hoarder
---Estate, garage, and yard sales, etc.
---Organizing and dealing with things and information
---Moving: Senior move managers and other specialists
---Cleaning and household tips
Eulogies and video tributes
---Eulogies and video tributes
---Obituaries and other forms of tribute
---How putting events into a story may aid the healing process
---The beneficial effects of life story and legacy activities
---Good interview questions for the family
---Healing stories and storytelling organizations and sites
---Stories, healing, and self-understanding (a booklist)
---Memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differentness, and survival (a reading list)
---Narrative medicine and medical narrative
---On dealing with variance from "normality"
---Organizations that assist artists with disabilities
---Telling your story (writing our memoirs, creating a family history, genealogical resources, oral histories, books to get started writing your own or someone else's life story--on my Pat McNees website)
---Eulogies and video tributes
---Obituaries and other forms of tribute
---How putting events into a story may aid the healing process
---The beneficial effects of life story and legacy activities
---Good interview questions for the family
---Healing stories and storytelling organizations and sites
---Stories, healing, and self-understanding (a booklist)
---Memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differentness, and survival (a reading list)
---Narrative medicine and medical narrative
---On dealing with variance from "normality"
---Organizations that assist artists with disabilities
---Telling your story (writing our memoirs, creating a family history, genealogical resources, oral histories, books to get started writing your own or someone else's life story--on my Pat McNees website)
Funerals, cremation, memorial services, and other alternatives
---Planning for a funeral
---Advice from the Federal Trade Commission
---Veterans death, burial, and survivor benefits
---Funerals, memorial services, and other ceremonies for the dead
---Music for funerals, wakes, and memorial services
---Green funerals
---Home funerals and family-directed funerals
---Books and stories about family-directed funerals
---Farewells to veterans
---Cremation and crematories
---Coffins, caskets, and urns
---Cemeteries, gravesites, headstones, and memorials
---Online memorials and high-tech headstones (locating burial sites with a smartphone and other digital secrets)
---Organ, tissue, and whole-body donation
---Helpful death-related organizations
---Movies about death, dying, funerals, farewells, and departures
---Planning for a funeral
---Advice from the Federal Trade Commission
---Veterans death, burial, and survivor benefits
---Funerals, memorial services, and other ceremonies for the dead
---Music for funerals, wakes, and memorial services
---Green funerals
---Home funerals and family-directed funerals
---Books and stories about family-directed funerals
---Farewells to veterans
---Cremation and crematories
---Coffins, caskets, and urns
---Cemeteries, gravesites, headstones, and memorials
---Online memorials and high-tech headstones (locating burial sites with a smartphone and other digital secrets)
---Organ, tissue, and whole-body donation
---Helpful death-related organizations
---Movies about death, dying, funerals, farewells, and departures
HIPAA, electronic health records, and patient privacy
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA),
---Electronic health records (EHR--issues, problems, information)
---The HIPAA privacy rule
---Patient privacy and related issues
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA),
---Electronic health records (EHR--issues, problems, information)
---The HIPAA privacy rule
---Patient privacy and related issues
Hospice care and palliative care
---Improving end-of-life care
---About end-of-life care
---Frequently asked questions
---How medical professionals can help terminally ill patients prepare to die
---Managing the cost of dying and end-of-life care
---Hospice care (care to comfort, not to cure--for those who are dying)
---The differences between hospice care and palliative care
---Palliative care
---Finding hospice care
---Issues with for-profit hospices
---Blogs about hospice care and palliative care
---Books about hospice and palliative care
---Organizations helpful about end-of-life care)[Back to Top]
---Improving end-of-life care
---About end-of-life care
---Frequently asked questions
---How medical professionals can help terminally ill patients prepare to die
---Managing the cost of dying and end-of-life care
---Hospice care (care to comfort, not to cure--for those who are dying)
---The differences between hospice care and palliative care
---Palliative care
---Finding hospice care
---Issues with for-profit hospices
---Blogs about hospice care and palliative care
---Books about hospice and palliative care
---Organizations helpful about end-of-life care)
How storytelling can aid in healing (memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differentness, and survival)
---Dignity therapy
---Good interview questions for the family
---Memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differentness, and survival (a reading list)
---Fiction featuring characters with disabilities
---Dignity therapy
---Good interview questions for the family
---Memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differentness, and survival (a reading list)
---Fiction featuring characters with disabilities
Life story writing (the healing powers of narrative)
---How putting events into a story may aid the healing process
---Good interview questions for the family
---Healing stories and storytelling organizations and sites
---Stories, healing, and self-understanding (a booklist)
---Memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differentness, and survival (a reading list)
---Narrative medicine and medical narrative
---On dealing with variance from "normality"
---Organizations that assist artists with disabilities
---How putting events into a story may aid the healing process
---Good interview questions for the family
---Healing stories and storytelling organizations and sites
---Stories, healing, and self-understanding (a booklist)
---Memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differentness, and survival (a reading list)
---Narrative medicine and medical narrative
---On dealing with variance from "normality"
---Organizations that assist artists with disabilities
Long-term care and long-term care insurance
---Planning for long-term care and end-of-life preferences
---What you need to know about long-term care insurance
---Long-term care, long-term care insurance, and public policy
---Organizations focused on long-term care and long-term care insurance
---End-of-life care and planning for pets
---Planning for long-term care and end-of-life preferences
---What you need to know about long-term care insurance
---Long-term care, long-term care insurance, and public policy
---Organizations focused on long-term care and long-term care insurance
---End-of-life care and planning for pets
Managing living arrangements for elderly and disabled
New housing models, equipment, services
---Senior housing options (the big picture)
---Downsizing, decluttering, moving, and other hard-to-face realities
HOME-BASED SOLUTIONS
---Co-Housing
---Aging in Place (naturally occurring retirement centers, or NORCs)
---The Village Movement: Aging-in-place supported communities
---Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs)
FACILITY-BASED SOLUTIONS
---The Eden Alternative and The Green House Project
---Memory care
---Nursing homes, old-style and new (including Green Houses)
---Long-term acute care hospitals
HELPFUL DEVICES, SUPPORTS, APPROACHES
---Senior health problems, surgery, aches and pains
---Assistive devices, remodeling, and other ways to enable independent living
---Advice, reflections, equipment, services --things that make life easier
when our body falls short)
---Changing attitudes toward disability
---Blogs about disability
---Traveling with disabilities and/or limited mobility
---Books about traveling with limited mobility and other disabilities
MISCELLANEOUS
---Legal and financial decision-making
---Addressing problems of homelessness
---End-of-life decision-making in the critical care unit
New housing models, equipment, services
---Senior housing options (the big picture)
---Downsizing, decluttering, moving, and other hard-to-face realities
HOME-BASED SOLUTIONS
---Co-Housing
---Aging in Place (naturally occurring retirement centers, or NORCs)
---The Village Movement: Aging-in-place supported communities
---Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs)
FACILITY-BASED SOLUTIONS
---The Eden Alternative and The Green House Project
---Memory care
---Nursing homes, old-style and new (including Green Houses)
---Long-term acute care hospitals
HELPFUL DEVICES, SUPPORTS, APPROACHES
---Senior health problems, surgery, aches and pains
---Assistive devices, remodeling, and other ways to enable independent living
---Advice, reflections, equipment, services --things that make life easier
when our body falls short)
---Changing attitudes toward disability
---Blogs about disability
---Traveling with disabilities and/or limited mobility
---Books about traveling with limited mobility and other disabilities
MISCELLANEOUS
---Legal and financial decision-making
---Addressing problems of homelessness
---End-of-life decision-making in the critical care unit
Managing pain, health, and health care costs
plus medications and hospitalization...
---Making wise medical choices
---Good e-resources for patients/consumers/patient advocates and e-patients
---Concierge medicine
---Which medications, tests, procedures, and treatments to question or avoid
---Recognizing, managing, and reporting medication side effects
---The truth about private screening tests
---Managing ordinary (not chronic) pain
---Managing medications and procedures
---Reducing medical costs
plus medications and hospitalization...
---Making wise medical choices
---Good e-resources for patients/consumers/patient advocates and e-patients
---Concierge medicine
---Which medications, tests, procedures, and treatments to question or avoid
---Recognizing, managing, and reporting medication side effects
---The truth about private screening tests
---Managing ordinary (not chronic) pain
---Managing medications and procedures
---Reducing medical costs
Medical mysteries, patient stories, and fighting bad medicine
---Medical mysteries
---Patient stories
---Caregiver stories
---Medical professionals' stories
---Questioning drug claims and managing medication side effects
---Fighting price gouging and making drugs more affordable
---Buying drugs and procedures smartly, cost-effectively, safely
---Basic healthcare explanations: How things (in the body) work
---Books for your medical reference shelf
---Books on medicine, health care, and caregiving--for patients and caregivers
---Helpful medical links
---Coping with cancer and critical illness
---Coping with chronic, rare, and invisible diseases and disorders
---Hospice care and palliative care (care to comfort, not to cure)
---Managing life for elderly and disabled patients Assisted living, nursing homes, cohousing, or living in place (with or without caregivers
---Medical mysteries
---Patient stories
---Caregiver stories
---Medical professionals' stories
---Questioning drug claims and managing medication side effects
---Fighting price gouging and making drugs more affordable
---Buying drugs and procedures smartly, cost-effectively, safely
---Basic healthcare explanations: How things (in the body) work
---Books for your medical reference shelf
---Books on medicine, health care, and caregiving--for patients and caregivers
---Helpful medical links
---Coping with cancer and critical illness
---Coping with chronic, rare, and invisible diseases and disorders
---Hospice care and palliative care (care to comfort, not to cure)
---Managing life for elderly and disabled patients Assisted living, nursing homes, cohousing, or living in place (with or without caregivers
Medicare, Medicaid, and health insurance and exchanges
Sources of support for healthcare
---Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
---Medicare and Medicaid: History and legislation
---Medicare and Medicaid: What you need to know
---MACRA (Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act)
---Helpful blogs, organizations, and citizen lobbies
---How Medicare falls short (end of life talks and other issues)
---Health insurance and health insurance marketplaces
---Faith-based ministries as alternatives to health insurance
Sources of support for healthcare
---Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
---Medicare and Medicaid: History and legislation
---Medicare and Medicaid: What you need to know
---MACRA (Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act)
---Helpful blogs, organizations, and citizen lobbies
---How Medicare falls short (end of life talks and other issues)
---Health insurance and health insurance marketplaces
---Faith-based ministries as alternatives to health insurance
Models for paying doctors and other healthcare professionals
---Pros and cons of a single-payer system
a/k/a Problems with the current health insurance system
---Retainer or concierge medicine and other new models for paying doctors
---Dealing with manpower shortages (physicians and other healthcare professionals
---Pros and cons of a single-payer system
a/k/a Problems with the current health insurance system
---Retainer or concierge medicine and other new models for paying doctors
---Dealing with manpower shortages (physicians and other healthcare professionals
Music for funerals and memorial services
Listen to samples of hymns, gospel and inspirational music; blues and nostalgic popular music; anthems; patriotic and military funeral music; and classical music. If you click on the Amazon link to buy and download the music, this site gets a small commission (usually 4 or 5 cents).
---Classical music for funerals and memorial services
---Hymns, gospel, and inspirational music for funerals and memorial services
---Funeral anthems
---Patriotic and military funeral music
---Popular secular music, including blues music
Listen to samples of hymns, gospel and inspirational music; blues and nostalgic popular music; anthems; patriotic and military funeral music; and classical music. If you click on the Amazon link to buy and download the music, this site gets a small commission (usually 4 or 5 cents).
---Classical music for funerals and memorial services
---Hymns, gospel, and inspirational music for funerals and memorial services
---Funeral anthems
---Patriotic and military funeral music
---Popular secular music, including blues music
Obituaries and other forms of tribute
---What's happening to the obit page?
---Self-written obituaries
---Online obituary and memorial websites
---About obituaries and obituary writing
---Examples of moving, memorable, amusing, or interesting obituaries and other kinds of tribute
---Books on the craft of obituary writing
---Eulogies and video tributes
---What's happening to the obit page?
---Self-written obituaries
---Online obituary and memorial websites
---About obituaries and obituary writing
---Examples of moving, memorable, amusing, or interesting obituaries and other kinds of tribute
---Books on the craft of obituary writing
---Eulogies and video tributes
Reducing medical errors
---Will you die from medical error?
---The anatomy of medical error
---Reducing preventable medical errors
---Will you die from medical error?
---The anatomy of medical error
---Reducing preventable medical errors
Reforming the U.S. health care system
---Understanding the issues
---Repeal, replace, and various proposed alternatives to Obamacare (ACA)
---Health care reform and the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare)
---Doctors' incentives to prescribe expensive medications
---Improving healthcare practices
---The costs of neglecting the mentally ill
---Organizations serious about improving U.S. healthcare
---The politics and policy issues of health care (insurance) reform and the ACA (Obamacare)
---Health insurance, ACA, and the marriage glitch
---Taking the mystery out of health care prices (blog post)
---Why U.S. medical costs are so high and where the system needs fixing (blog post)
---Drugs, Big Pharma, conflicts of interest, and why U.S. patients pay too much for medication (blog post)
---Understanding the issues
---Repeal, replace, and various proposed alternatives to Obamacare (ACA)
---Health care reform and the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare)
---Doctors' incentives to prescribe expensive medications
---Improving healthcare practices
---The costs of neglecting the mentally ill
---Organizations serious about improving U.S. healthcare
---The politics and policy issues of health care (insurance) reform and the ACA (Obamacare)
---Health insurance, ACA, and the marriage glitch
---Taking the mystery out of health care prices (blog post)
---Why U.S. medical costs are so high and where the system needs fixing (blog post)
---Drugs, Big Pharma, conflicts of interest, and why U.S. patients pay too much for medication (blog post)
Retirement 101
---Not talking about retirement can cost you
---Retirement and insurance calculators
---Retirement finances 101
---Retirement funds and issues
---Reverse mortgages, pro and con
---Second chances: Retirement as a second act
---Not talking about retirement can cost you
---Retirement and insurance calculators
---Retirement finances 101
---Retirement funds and issues
---Reverse mortgages, pro and con
---Second chances: Retirement as a second act
Social Security and veterans benefits
and pensions and annuities
---Basic information about U.S. Social Security
---Calculating and maximizing benefits
---History of (and threats to) Social Security
---Problems with, and proposed changes to, Social Security
---Research findings
---Stories and analysis, explanations and arguments
---Veterans healthcare, death, and survivor benefits
---Safety net programs for the poor
and pensions and annuities
---Basic information about U.S. Social Security
---Calculating and maximizing benefits
---History of (and threats to) Social Security
---Problems with, and proposed changes to, Social Security
---Research findings
---Stories and analysis, explanations and arguments
---Veterans healthcare, death, and survivor benefits
---Safety net programs for the poor
Substance abuse and recovery
---Addiction, treatment, and recovery
---Alcoholism and approaches to treatment
---Addiction to opioids and psychoactive drugs
---Dealing with the opioid crisis
---Eating disorders
---Smoking and smoking cessation
---Addiction to gambling
---Addiction to smartphones, the internet, online technology (aka "dependence syndrome")
---Helpful organizations and publications
---The war on drugs
---The problems with drug courts
---Sober living housing options
---Memoirs and fiction about drug abuse and various forms of addiction
---Addiction, treatment, and recovery
---Alcoholism and approaches to treatment
---Addiction to opioids and psychoactive drugs
---Dealing with the opioid crisis
---Eating disorders
---Smoking and smoking cessation
---Addiction to gambling
---Addiction to smartphones, the internet, online technology (aka "dependence syndrome")
---Helpful organizations and publications
---The war on drugs
---The problems with drug courts
---Sober living housing options
---Memoirs and fiction about drug abuse and various forms of addiction
Writing a legacy letter (an ethical will)
---What is an ethical will?
---Books to help you write legacy messages
---Pat's ethical will workshop
---Psychiatry as performance art
---What is an ethical will?
---Books to help you write legacy messages
---Pat's ethical will workshop
---Psychiatry as performance art
Vaccines and vaccinations
---Vaccine basics
---Conditions for which increasing immunization is important
---Measles and measles vaccines
---Autism and vaccines
---The problems with the anti-vaccine movement
---Vaccine information for medical professionals
---Books about vaccines and immunization
---Vaccine basics
---Conditions for which increasing immunization is important
---Measles and measles vaccines
---Autism and vaccines
---The problems with the anti-vaccine movement
---Vaccine information for medical professionals
---Books about vaccines and immunization
End-of-life decision making
Enjoying the golden years
Autism, Asperger's syndrome, Savant Syndrome
(and donating your body or body parts)
Depression, bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), schizophrenia, and other forms of mental illness
Including suicide and assisted dying
Plus memorials and requiems
Plus cemeteries, coffins, headstones, memorials, etc.
End-of-life care
Narrative medicine (or medical narrative)
Memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differentness, and survival
Assisted living, nursing homes, cohousing, or living in place (with or without caregivers)
Addressing problems of homelessness
and hospitalization
(stories about specific diseases, conditions, syndromes)
Making best use of the system
What's wrong with American health care?
Understanding the issues reform must address
What you need to know
Pat McNees
Autism spectrum disorders
Including Asperger's syndrome and savant syndrome
Caregivers and caregiving
Caregivers, caregiving, long-term care, and caregiver burnout
Depression and other forms of mental illness
Depression, bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), schizophrenia, and other forms of mental illness
Difficult endings
Suicide, homicide, physician-assisted suicide, violence (including domestic violence), sudden death (from accidents and otherwise), dementia and other forms of lingering illness
Housing options for seniors and disabled adults
Home-based and facility-based solutions, helpful devices and supports
Substance abuse, treatment, and recovery
Drug addiction and overdose, alcoholism, eating disorders, and social issues
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