WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: August 30, 2012​ Featuring: Ellen Goodman, co-founder, The Conversation Project; Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist and author Larry Weber, Chairman, W2 Group; Author, Everywhere: Comprehensive Digital Business Strategy for the Social Media Era Martha Hayward, Lead for Public and Patient Engagement, Institute for Healthcare Improvement We have lots of meaningful conversations in the course of our lives, but topping the list has to be talking with family members and loved ones about our own — or their — wishes for care at the end of life. Despite the inevitability of death, for many of us this is the last conversation we either want to have or know how to have; it can be especially difficult to initiate. And yet, without these discussions, we or our loved ones run the risk of running headlong into a medical crisis and getting care we don’t want, and not getting the care we do.   Back in January, WIHI offered listeners a preview of a ground-breaking, grass-roots initiative aimed at changing this sta