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Topic: end of life care

Doctor delivering news to patient (Getty Images/LWA)

Why it's so hard to talk to doctors

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/sturti)

Giving dementia patients an end

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
Doulas are no longer just for birthing help - now they support hospice patients (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-277009p1.html'>Photographee.eu</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

From birth to death with doula

Bruce Horovitz - KFF Health News
End of life care at home is a better, more cost-effective option (<a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-206023p1.html “>CandyBox Images</a> via <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/">Shutterstock</a>)

End of life care at home

Anna Gorman - KFF Health News
Atul Gawande (Macmillan/Tim Llewellyn)

Gawande on the end of life

Joanna Rothkopf
(Media Matters for America)

Katie McDonough
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-544783p1.html?searchterm=hospital%20bed'> hxdbzxy </a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Katie McDonough
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-332422p1.html'>VILevi</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Katie McDonough