“Advance care planning improves end-of-life care and patient and family satisfaction and reduces stress, anxiety and depression in surviving relatives.”

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION in the preamble to new Medicare regulation, which will cover "voluntary advance care planning" — or discussions of end-of-life care during annual doctor's visits — despite the furor over "death panels" that erupted during the health care debate [via The New York Times]

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