Hospice News September 22, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has spurred demand for serious illness and end-of-life care as it continues a global spread. COVID-19 has exposed gaps in the fragmented U.S. health care system, along with opportunities for hospice and palliative care awareness and access to grow.
Spreading awareness of palliative care among the public and clinicians in other disciplines can help providers work toward greater access to those services, according to hospice and palliative care experts B.J. Miller, M.D., and Sonya Dolan, founders of Mettle Health.
“Demand for palliative care is going up in an explicit way and also in an implicit way, in so far as the health system and frontline clinicians are dealing with existential issues, dealing with end-of-life issues, and...