Hospice News January 15, 2025
Terminally ill patients often lack a firm understanding and awareness about their end-of-life care options, a trend researchers across the world are examining more closely.
Underserved neurological patients
Patients with neurodegenerative diseases are less likely to receive hospice care compared to others, according to a recent study published in the Neurology journal.
The study spanned more than 1.12 million Medicare decedents who died in 2018 and examined the differences in hospice utilization during the last year and a half of life. Researchers compared the experiences of individuals with various conditions such as Alzheimer’s and dementia, Parkinson disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) against patients with non-neurological conditions including brain tumors and pancreatic cancer.
Decedents with neurodegenerative diseases had lower odds...
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