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Professor Karen Bullock has spent the last two decades studying what stops seriously ill Black patients and their families from getting the care they want in life and in death.
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The average life span has nearly doubled during the last century. But while people are living longer, they're now facing health challenges that were less…
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Quality over quantity. As people get older, their health care goals may shift away from living as long as possible to maintaining a good quality of life.…
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BUFFALO — Twice already Narseary and Vernal Harris have watched a son die. The first time — Paul, at age 26 — was agonizing and frenzied, his body…
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Beginning next year, the federal government will conduct a five-year, 40-state experiment to determine whether there is a better way to help elderly…
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Palmer Gaetano served in the army in France and Belgium World during War II. The 92-year old now lives in a hospice facility in Spencerport, near his…
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Ed's glasses rest on the bedside table next to a piece of uneaten cherry pie covered with saran wrap and a pocket Bible with an orange vinyl cover. Ed's…