Death at Home Associated with Higher Care Satisfaction
More Americans are now dying at home than in the hospital for the first time in half a century. While…
More Americans are now dying at home than in the hospital for the first time in half a century. While…
Yes, the Medicare hospice benefit allows for chemotherapy and radiotherapy as long as the purpose is symptom relief. Medicare’s hospice…
When a person has a disease in an advanced state, the life expectancy is less than six months, and all…
The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine recently published a study suggesting that the longer a student is in…
In hospice, the question of 24-hour care is a complex one. The answer is “yes,” hospice provides continuous care in…
This question refers to a long-standing conflict in medical care. On one hand, doctors want to give their patients accurate…
Yes, for qualified patients, Medicare pays 100% of charges from Medicare-certified hospice agencies and pays most of the other hospice-related…
When people have diseases in an advanced state, it’s common to reach a point where doctors say “All the best…
Most husbands and wives prefer to be directly involved in the care of terminally ill spouses.1 Those who have never…
In the absence of hospice, patients in the last year of life experience a marked, unrelenting increase in pain and…