When do you need hospice care?

connie dello buono's avatarAffordable in home care | starts at $28 per hr

You need hospice care when the doctor or family requested for it because you are terminally ill and caregivers need help with visiting hospice nurse and for pain relief use such as sublingual morphine.

Why it’s so hard to die in peace

For those of us who had hoped that American attitudes toward death were shifting in ways that would promote a wider reconstruction of the health-care system, there’s discouraging newsfrom Health Affairs, the preeminent journal of health policy. It devotes its latest issue to “end-of-life” care and finds that — at least so far — the power to make health care more compassionate and cost-effective is limited.That was the vision. Americans would become more realistic about death. Through “living wills,” they’d reject heroic — often futile — treatment to keep them alive. Health spending would be lower (by one estimate, a quarter of Medicare…

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