Seriously ill patients in Illinois may benefit from the new Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form, a medical order designed to travel with patients across care settings and direct doctors to provide or withhold lifesaving treatments. “POLST has swept the nation, and Chicago is right in the middle of it,” said Dr. Julie Goldstein, a clinical […]
More than 130 DePaul University students braved the Chicago cold to attend “Planning The Good Death,” a lecture that fostered deep discussion about the importance of end of life planning. Presented by the DePaul Humanities Center, the event urged students to “ask what it means to prepare for death and what role such preparation might play in […]
Senior citizens across the city of Chicago will soon learn how to start a conversation about their end of life preferences with their family members and their physicians, as the Chicago Advisory Council on Aging approved a plan to welcome Life Matters Media, an organization dedicated to enhancing essential dialogue among health care decision makers, […]