Joe Takach kisses Lillian Landry in this Oct. 30, 2009 file photo, as Landry spends her last days in the hospice wing of an Oakland Park, Fla., hospital. She made her end-of-life decisions, listing how she wanted to spend her last time and how she wanted to be buried. (J PAT CARTER/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
What end-of-life care really means
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The Obama administration took a lot of heat over a provision in the new health care law which encourages doctors to provide end-of-life planning for their patients. Proponents of end-of-life planning argue that it empowers patients and families, and could equal cost savings to the health care system down the road.
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Ted Fishman: Journalist and author of "Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World's Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation."
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Robert Kane M.D.: Professor and Minnesota Chair in Long-Term Care and Aging, Division of Health Policy & Management,University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
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