Finding Joy and Purpose Through Singing: Giving Voice to People Living With Dementia.

For every individual living with dementia, the experience is unique. When you meet one person living with dementia, you have simply met one person. Dementia will change many things about life-but not all at once and often over many years.

Transformative advance care planning: the Honoring Choices Minnesota experience.

In the United States, discussing end-of-life wishes and preferences has been taboo ever since death and dying moved from a stage of life to a medical condition. This article describes the transformative nature of a Minnesota health care initiative, Honoring Choices Minnesota (HCM). As the world's largest nongovernmental, voluntary community-centered initiative, HCM is changing the culture around speaking of death and dying, one conversation at a time.