The Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) tested a new option for eligible Medicare
beneficiaries to receive conventional treatment for terminal conditions along with supportive …

Background Challenges in prognosticating patients diagnosed with advanced dementia
(AD) hinders timely referrals to palliative care. We aim to develop and validate a prognostic …

The Medicare hospice program is intended to provide palliative care to terminal patients, but
patients with long stays in hospice are highly profitable, motivating concerns about overuse …

Background: Home health care is a core benefit of Medicare and Medicaid insurance
programs and includes services to improve health, maintain health, or slow health decline …

Abstract Background The Medicare Hospice Benefit increasingly serves people dying with
dementia. We sought to understand characteristics, hospice use patterns, and last‐month‐of …

Importance Patients often visit the emergency department (ED) near the end of life. Their
common disposition is inpatient hospital admission, which can result in a delayed transition …

Objectives End-of-life (EOL) care during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic has been a concern under the overwhelming pressure of health care service …

Background: Dignity, an abstract and complex concept, is an essential part of humanity and
an underlying guiding principle in healthcare. Previous literature indicates dignity is …

INTRODUCTION—As the population ages, the overall burden of advanced dementia is
increasing worldwide. In the United States in 2022, an estimated 6.5 million individuals over …

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