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Honoring Choices Minnesota
TOPICS
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Choosing Care for the End of Your Life
A Longer, Healthier Life...How Do I Sign Up?
Mental Illness and Older Adults
Major Depression and Seniors and Suicide
Community Supported Agriculture: Bringing Farm-Fresh Food Home
CSA Farms: More than Fresh Veggies
The CLASS Act: A Promising Approach for Long-Term Care
Making Sense of Healthcare Reform
What Have you Done for Your Health Lately
So, What Was I Looking for? Normal Cognitive Aging
Dementia Care Transitions Project Receives National Innovations Award
Medical Homes Offer Promise for Improved Health Care
Tips for Talking to Your Doctor
Good Nutrition for Older Adults
Honoring Choices Minnesota (HCM) is a collaborative, community-wide public-health initiative. The Twin Cities Medical Society, a physician membership association, serves as convener and coordinator for HCM. The initiative hopes:
- To make advanced care planning the healthcare community’s standard of care for adults
- To ensure that every person’s healthcare choices are clearly defined and then honored at the end of life.
Advanced care planning includes completion of a healthcare directive, but, ideally, it is about conversations with a trained facilitator who is skilled at engaging patients and their loved ones in discussions about their desires and values related to end-of-life care.
Most healthcare organizations in the metro area have committed to participation in HCM. Seven hospitals and clinics attended training and served as pilot sites from January to June 2010, and several more will participate in the program during the first half of 2011.
Honoring Choices Minnesota, together with Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) and the Citizens League, are planning a public engagement campaign. For more information, visit at tpt.org/choice or www.metrodoctors.com.
