Coping with the Final Stages of Alzheimer's Disease

Get tips and advice from our experts on how to maintain quality of life even in the final stages of Alzheimer's disease.

Hospice Care

Dr. Jacobs explains how hospice care can help you and your loved one when the time comes.

End-of-Life Discussions: News and Studies

End-of-life talk has cascading benefits: study
In terminally ill patients, "end-of-life" discussions with their doctor do not increase emotional distress or reduce quality of life, a study shows.
End-of-Life Communication Helps Families Cope With Loss
Just 10 extra minutes with health-care providers reduced stress and depression, study finds.

Learn From Carol's Experiences

Engage With Grace Provides Valuable Tool for End-of-Life Discussion
The Engage with Grace project serves as an incredibly useful tool, even for family caregivers who have dealt with death before.
How Your Voice and Words Can Affect a Loved One During the Death Process
One valuable lesson Carol has learned as she's attended the deaths of loved ones is the value of the spoken word, even as a person in a coma nears death.
A Book To Spark Conversation and Thought about the Dying Process
It can be hard to find the right place and time to talk about the dying process, but tips from this book can help.
How to Die Organized: Ten Tips
Check out these tips from the book titled "Putting Things in Order: A Journal to Organize Your Life for the Next Generation" and discover the things you should be thinking about as age.

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