Advance Care Planning in the News:   

• Conversations To Have With Your Parents
  http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2010/07/22/106352_conversations-to-have-with-your-parents.html
    
• What is POLST?
  http://rss.examiner.com/x-9696-SF-Senior-Care-Examiner~y2010m7d6-What-is-a-POLST
   
• Studies: End of Life Plans Honored
  http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/July/02/end-of-life-shorttake.aspx
    
• Study Finds Doctors' Orders Help Patients Get Preferred End-of-Life Treatment
  http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/July/02/end-of-life-shorttake.aspx
   
• Not Discussing End-Stage Disease Prolongs Futile, Costly, and Painful Care
  http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/QUA-253119/Not-Discussing-EndStage-Disease-Prolongs-Futile-Costly-and-Painful-Care.html
    
• Many Americans Overtreated to death
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37907548/ns/health-cancer/
    
• Florida State University Center: Critically Ill Patients' Wishes Should Be Doctor's Orders
  http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/565925/?sc=rsmn 
      
• Physician Ordered Life Sustaining Treatment - POLST
  http://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/physician-ordered-life-sustaining-treatment-polst
                        
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