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IOWA CITY HOSPICE WALK FOR DIGNITY PSA video
TALKING WITH YALE COHN (with Iowa City Hospice and the Johnson County Livable Community Initiative) video
Yale talks about senior issues in Iowa City with Betty Kelly and Eve Casserly from the Johnson County Livable Community for Successful Aging Initiative, and Maggie Elliot and Mel McMorris from Iowa City Hospice, hosts of the Walk for Dignity, the community event that gives friends and families an opportunity to celebrate the lives and honor the memories of their loved ones, and show support for Iowa City Hospice.
I.C. HOSPICE LAUCHES PET PEACE OF MIND(Iowa City Press Citizen April 9, 2011)
Two mornings a week, University of Iowa student Sarah Gisleson meets up with her new friend, a friendly pug belonging to a patient receiving care from Iowa City Hospice. Read more...
LETTING GO by Atul Gawande (The New Yorker, August 23, 2010)
What should medicine do when it can't save your life? Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on improving the days that terminal patients have left. Read more...
AMERICANS ARE TREATED, AND OVERTREATED, TO DEATH
In a June 29 Associated Press story that was broadcast or printed in media nationwide, author Marilynn Marchione told the stories of people who were “treated to death” in their final days when they might have avoided hospitalizations and instead received palliative hospice care at home. A recent Dartmouth study shows that more than 80% of Americans wish to die at home, and instead most with incurable illnesses are dying in hospitals without having conversations about all of their options. Read more...
HOSPICE CARE IN IOWA: ON THE RISE, BUT OBSTACLES PERSIST
08/12/10 filed by Kate Wells
Half of all people who die in Iowa do so under hospice care. That’s well above the national average, which makes sense for a state with an aging population. Yet as the hospice industry has boomed over the past decade, experts say patients and their families still face serious obstacles to getting the best end-of-life care. Iowa Public Radio’s Kate Wells reports on the communication barriers and information gaps that surround hospice care in Iowa. (3:58)
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