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Thursday, 5 May 2016

Editor's Pick: For the Aging, Home May Be Where the Technology Is

For the Aging, Home May Be Where the Technology Is

Quinten Plummer
May 5, 2016 5:00 AM PT

Medicare started off the year putting into action a program to encourage more doctors to discuss end-of-life and advance care plans with patients. While the details tend to focus on the hard choices on the far side of those arrangements, new and near-future technologies could preserve life's simple pleasures on their front end. End-of-life conversations are meant to cover more than the final days or weeks. [More...]

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