Before the Jan. '16 publication of my book, "Last Comforts: Notes From the Forefront of Late-Life Care," I'm now blogging at http://lastcomforts.com -- all about innovations and remarkable pathfinders in palliative and hospice care as well as in long-term care settings. Why? Because getting to a better future will require all of us to raise our voices to demand it.

This is a piece I wrote, appearing in this week's pulse -- voices from the heart of medicine.

http://pulsevoices.org/index.php/archive/stories/465-go-ask-alice