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Judith Graham

Judith Graham

Judith Graham, a contributing columnist, writes the “Navigating Aging” column for KHN. She has covered health care for more than 30 years. She’s been an investigative reporter, national correspondent and senior health reporter at the Chicago Tribune and a regular contributor to The New York Times’ New Old Age blog. Judith was the first topic leader on aging for the Association of Health Care Journalists. She is a graduate of Harvard College and has a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.

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Advance care planning for guns: Owners can help ensure safe use and transfer of weapons

By: - May 2, 2022

Kerri Raissian didn’t know what to do about her father’s guns when he died of COVID-19 in December at age 86 and left her executor of his estate. Her father, Max McGaughey, hadn’t left a complete list of his firearms and where they were stored, and he hadn’t prepared a realistic plan for responsibly transferring […]