Black-Owned Hospice Seeks to Bring Greater Ease in Dying to Black Families
Roughly 41% of Black Medicare beneficiaries who died in 2019 were enrolled in hospice, compared with 54% of white patients.
Tag: End Of Life
A New Paradigm Is Needed: Top Experts Question the Value of Advance Care Planning
For decades, Americans have been urged to fill out documents specifying their end-of-life wishes. Now, experts say those efforts should ...
New California Law Eases Aid-in-Dying Process
California’s End of Life Option Act allows terminally ill patients with a life expectancy of less than six months to end ...
‘My Time to Live’: Through Novel Program, Kidney Patients Get Palliative Care, Dialysis ’Til the End
A Seattle program is among the first in the U.S. to address palliative and hospice care among dialysis patients. the ...
Aiding Her Dying Husband, a Geriatrician Learns the Emotional and Physical Toll of Caregiving
Older adults who have survived covid-19 are more likely than younger patients to have persistent symptoms such as fatigue, breathlessness, ...