Medicare’s regulations for enrolling in hospice exclude many dementia patients who need it the most.
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When dementia patients on Medicare enroll in hospice, they lose other crucial supports and services.
Palliative care tries to support a patient’s quality of life.
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Palliative care, often misunderstood, is not synonymous with hospice care.
You can start these conversations simply, like saying, “I need to think about the future. Can you help me?”
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When you prepare to talk about end-of-life decisions and the legacy you want to leave behind, try thinking about them as gifts you bestow to family and friends.
In our final days, relationships can be resurrected, love revived and forgiveness achieved.
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A hospice doctor spent 10 years studying the end-of-life experiences of over 1,400 terminally ill patients.
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Surviving friends and family of a person who dies often go through deep grief.
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When a patient dies, grieving family and friends too often languish in neglect.