AUGUSTA – The Attorney General’s Office recently added a new Web page regarding end-of-life care issues. The information is aimed at helping people plan for end-of-life care and pain management.

Anyone can access the page at www.maine.gov/ag. At that site, click on “elder issues” and then on “end-of-life care.”

Surveys on end-of-life issues show that most people want to die at home, surrounded by loved ones and free from pain. In reality, most people die alone, in institutions and in pain. Attorney General Steven Rowe said he hopes the information on the Web page will help people make decisions so that the reality of the end of life will more often line up with their wishes.

Rowe also will speak at 8 a.m. Sept. 24 at the ninth annual Pain Initiative Symposium at the Samoset Resort in Rockland. The conference will give primary care physicians, legal professionals, patients and family members an opportunity to learn more about improving pain management in Maine.

For more information about the conference, call (800) 438-5963 or send e-mail to MPI@mainehospicecouncil.org.