Is it Better to Plan for End-of-Life? Or Strategic Aging?

The Doctor Weighs In
5 min readOct 24, 2018

By: Kevin Haselhorst, MD

Creating a plan for strategic aging can help patients create a narrative and direction for their end-of-life journey.

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“Mom, the doctor needs to know if you want to die,” were the words Maggie yelled at her hard-of-hearing 91-year-old mother, Gertrude. The emergency physician cringed to think how many other patients…

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