A guide to navigating today’s health care systemnear or at the end of life. Some of the things you’ll learn

:• Why dying is very different today than it was 100 years ago.

• Why it is so important to inform loved ones and your doctors about your end of life care goals and treatment preferences, and to complete a health care proxy.

• What is the Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (MOLST) form, and when and how should the form be completed.

• How hospices provide for a better quality of life and a more peaceful death, and the problems with accessing hospices.

• What end of life options you have to control the circumstances and quality of your death.