Hospice centers provide valuable end-of-life care for the elderly. So, why aren’t more people using these centers? The Medicare hospice benefit (MHB) was established in 1982 in order to give ...

Investigators from University of Colorado Report New Data on Hospice Care (Political economy of hope as a cultural facet of biomedicalization: A qualitative examination of constraints to hospice ...

Hospice care focuses on comfort and quality of life for those with terminal illnesses. Hospice care can save you money on medications and medical supplies. Diagnostic tests and hospitalizations may be ...

As Americans celebrate Black History Month, hospice professionals acknowledge that hospice utilization within African American communities is disproportionately low. To help address this disparity in ...

Of the 23 years Doris Ann Price has battled metastatic breast cancer, this year has been particularly hard. She’d almost grown accustomed to the ebb and flow of remission and relapse when, this spring ...

Less than half of patients with malignant ureteral obstruction (MUO) – a serious complication of advanced cancer, with a poor prognosis – receive palliative care (PC) for their condition, reports a ...

CC: Are there psychological and cultural hurdles to be cleared in the field of palliative care inside and outside the medical community? West: Certainly in the hospice world, many patients receive ...