Consider the Conversation: A Documentary on a Taboo Subject

(includes an interview with Dr. Bernard Hammes) Watch a video clip.

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Gundersen Health System's Respecting Choices featured on Rock Center

In the end, making hard decisions about dying brings personal, financial benefit. It’s one of the most important conversations a family can have, yet so many families fail to have it until it’s too late. Rock Center’s Harry Smith goes to the home of Respecting Choices, Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, WI, where its patients talk about the inevitable: death. In the process it has become known as the best place to die in America. Click here to watch Harry Smith's full report from Rock Center with Brian Williams.

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Planning improves end-of-life decisions for teens with cancer

Family-focused advanced care counseling improved agreement between teens with cancer and their families on end-of-life decisions, according to a study in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. Teens who received counseling gained greater knowledge about end-of-life decisions than the standard care group, and their families were more likely to support their wishes for limited treatment ... read more

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Respecting Choices in the news - Choices at the end of life: The undistorted picture ... read more

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Having Your Own Say
     Getting the Right Care When it Matters Most

Many people have never had conversations with their loved ones regarding their wishes for healthcare should they become unable to speak for themselves ... leaving them with no roadmap to guide them. Imagine how things could be different if you only knew. Having Your Own Say Getting the Right Care When it Matters Most, makes the case that families don't have to wonder, "What if?"

Discover how proven models put you and your loved ones at the center of your care and allow you to manage an illness on your own terms.

Edited by Bud Hammes, PhD
Director, Respecting Choices
Director, Medical Humanities, Gundersen Health System

Learn more/buy the book

If you like the book you might also like the Respecting Choices manual - Building a Systems Approach to Advance Care Planning.

Order your copy today!

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A Staged Approach to Advance Care Planning

How can we help you?   We invite you to learn more about how the Respecting Choices staged approach to advance care planning can help you create a culture where planning for future healthcare becomes the norm and honoring informed healthcare decisions becomes the expected standard of care.

 Respecting Choices is owned and operated by Gundersen Health System, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation located in La Crosse, WI, USA. 

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