Ellen Goodman, founder of The Conversation Project — a movement dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care — described in a recent New York Times editorial the continuing need to ‘bring people to the kitchen table to talk with those they love about death and dying.
She explained, “The difference between a good death and a hard death often seemed to hinge essentially on whether someone’s wishes were expressed and respected. Whether they’d had a conversation about how they wanted to live toward the end.”
The Margolin Group recognizes that “80% of U.S. citizens wish to die at home, but fewer than 20% actually do.”[1] Through the Win4RI Complex Care Management Initiative, developed in partnership with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, Care New England, Integra Community Care Network and Rhode Island Primary Care Physicians Corporation as well as its work with The Gitenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy, The Margolin Group supports the expansion of end-of-life and palliative care discussions as an effective way to ensure patients receive the high-quality advanced care they need and deserve.
[1] CareMore Health Plan, How We Do It (http://www.caremore.com/About/How-We-Do-It.aspx) (site last visited July 9, 2015).
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