Hospice/Palliative care

Caregivers of patients receiving hospice care report worse experiences at for-profit versus not-for-profit hospices.

These preexisting conditions affect functional impairment, mobility and falls.

Residents living in states with supportive regulations around hospice and home healthcare were more likely to die in their assisted living “homes” rather than transition to skilled nursing care at...

Older adults living with dementia need to be given more and earlier opportunities to discuss their care-related wishes as they approach the end of their lives, according to the authors of a recent study...

A demonstration project to deliver palliative care no matter where an individual lives — including in assisted living communities — and earlier in the disease process has gained bipartisan support.

We should see more of palliative care in senior living. Many residents never receive such care or only get it during the final phase of an illness.

Immediate and lasting reductions were seen in the share of patients receiving hospice care with the Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia code.

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization is blasting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for continuing a two-year Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in demonstration that NHPCO considers...

Frustration is mounting for home care and hospice agencies as they wait for the Biden administration to offer clues about how the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate will be implemented.

Better training, consumer-friendly reporting and fairer non-compliance penalties are some of the recommendations the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) has sent to the Centers for...