Helping Caregivers Understand the Challenges of End-of-Life Decision Making for Those with Mental Retardation

• By: Judith Pollack, LCSW Lori Hardoon, LCSW FEGS Health and Human Services
• July 1st, 2010
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Birth is a beginning and death a destination. Those of us who are considered to have capacity to make decisions for ourselves are nevertheless often unprepared as we face the end-of-life. We live in a death denying culture, which frequently prevents many of us from considering our options when we...