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Special Event:

Annual Palliative Care Conference
“A Team of Partners in Palliative Care; Challenges and Choices in Ethics and Care at the End of Life.”
Friday, November 13, 2009
County Center, White Plains

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Be Prepared Kit™
The Be Prepared Kit™ helps you put all of your critical information in one place.

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Our Mission

The Westchester End-of-Life Coalition is made up of people who live and work in Westchester County, NY. The Coalition seeks to expand awareness of the importance of end-of-life issues and informs professionals and the public about available services. As a community-based coalition we draw on local resources to support those at the end of life, their families and their caregivers.

We envision and work toward a community where all those with life-limiting conditions are able to die with dignity, at peace, pain-free, in a place and manner of their choosing—a community where the dying and their families receive excellent and compassionate timely care and support.

News

INCAPACITATED, ALONE AND TREATED TO DEATH
Published: October 6, 2008
New York Times

Mr. Green lay in the bed next to the window, 15 floors above the Cross-Bronx Expressway. Fifty-nine years old and suffering from AIDS-related dementia, he was bedbound, permanently tethered to a ventilator and, though conscious, unaware of his medical condition. In medico-legal parlance, he was incapacitated: unable to understand the consequences of his decisions and unable to direct the doctors caring for him. .

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