Knowledgeable Aging

Resources for the Aging Population

M. Jane Markley

jane@mjmarkley.com
www.mjmarkley.com
M. Jane Markley, RN President of M Jane Markley Consulting, LLC
Advance Care Planning Facilitator
Healthcare Ethics Advisor
Phone: (301)744-7656
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Death Café

A Death Café is a scheduled non-profit get-together, usually of strangers, for the purpose of talkingabout death over food and drink, initially tea and cake. Today however, there are Death and DyingDinner Parties or Cocktail Parties and other get togeth... Read more

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AND (Allow Natural Death)

AND is a medical order that was first identified in the 1990s as being a better way to address planning for the end of a life. It has resulted in significant discussions within the medical community and has been implemented in many locations. One may ask... Read more

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Sharing Your Advance Directive

Once you have gotten through the steps of advance care planning and completed your advance directive, including witness’ signatures, don’t stop until you have shared your directive with all of the “right” people or organizations. And who might th... Read more

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The “5 Ds” for Advance Care Plan Review

I’ve harped a lot in my newsletters about the importance of having an advance directive.  I can only hope that those of you who have been reading, have had the conversation and completed your advance directive.  But, as I have said before, th... Read more

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What is Advanced Care Planning and Why Should you Care?

Have you ever considered what might happen if you were injured on the beltway, taken to a hospital, and couldn’t speak for yourself? Who would make decisions for your care? Would they know what type of care you would want, or not want, as the case may ... Read more

M. Jane Markley, RN President of M Jane Markley Consulting, LLC, is a consultant and healthcare ethics advisor with 35+ years experience in healthcare. She works with individuals, families, organizations, ethics committees, and healthcare systems to help them understand the importance of advance care planning for themselves, their loved ones and their members.

A retired Navy Nurse, she is board-certified in healthcare management, a patient advocate and a former hospital ethics committee chair. She trains healthcare advocates; speaks nationally and internationally; works one on one with individuals and their families to complete their advance directives; facilitates ethics training for medical students as an Assistant Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, MD, and serves on the Maryland State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life.

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