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In the future, growing old could take longer

 
How would you like to live to be 120 years old?  If you are like most Americans in a recent survey, you’re not all that interested in living past 100 much less 120 but scientists think that babies born this year are likely to do just that. 

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Honoring someone's end-of-life decisions

 
If you’ve created your advanced directive, notified your loved ones of your decision and obtained their buy-in, named a heath care surrogate and made sure your physician knew of your desire, you’d expect to get compliance with those very real and very legal decision but the Florida Health Care Administration has cited 15 Florida nursing homes with failure to honor advanced directives, a violation of Florida state law. 

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Is palliative care for you?

 
Most people are aware of hospice care and what it pertains to but a closely related medical specialty is relatively unknown.  Palliative care seeks to address the multiple ways that illness affects a person whether the effects are physical, financial, spiritual etc.  The focus is on treating the symptoms of the disease or the side effects of treatment so that the patient can remain comfortable. 

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