Planning for a Better End of Life (Peekskill, NY)

EOLCNY’s David Leven will present “Planning for a Better End of Life” at The Field Library. This presentation will provide a guide to navigating today’s health care system, including:

• What palliative care is and how and when it can benefit you
• How to inform your doctors about your end of life care goals and treatment preferences
• The difference between a health care proxy, a living will, and a do not resuscitate order
• How hospices provide for a better quality of life and a more peaceful death

This program is supported by funding from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine and The All of Us Research Program. Developed resources reported in this project are supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) under cooperative agreement number UG4LM012342 with the University of Pittsburgh, Health Sciences Library System. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.