SCF Recommends
Many current events, publications, movies, websites and more deserve our attention as we contemplate our aging, and as we age. The SCF gives you a heads-up on some of these on this web page that is frequently updated.
“Physicians Aim to Improve End-of-Life Cancer Care”
In this webcast of a PBS newshour segment, cancer patient Judy Freedman speaks movingly about how she came to accept her own death and where she found help.
Webcast of a PBS NewsHour segment broadcast on July 11, 2008. Cancer patient Judy Freedman wanted to have a conversation with her oncologist about the care she would receive at the end of her life but he wasn’t willing to talk about it. Researchers report that only 37% of advanced cancer patients have such conversations with their oncologist, which means they’re three times as likely to be admitted to the ICU in their final days and to be over-treated. On the NewsHour broadcast and in an extended interview on the web, Freedman speaks movingly about how she came to accept her own death and where she found help.
