Can Doctors Accurately Predict How Long Someone Has to Live?
When patients have a terminal disease, candid but compassionate conversations about life expectancy prove vitally important. These conversations help patients…
How to Tell Your Doctor if You Do or Don’t Want to Know Your Life Expectancy
If you were diagnosed with a terminal disease, would you want the doctor to tell you how long you are…
The Difference Between Hospice and Home Health
At first glance, Medicare’s hospice and home health programs are very similar. Some families even use home health as a…
What is a Full-Code Hospice Patient?
A full-code hospice patient is a hospice patient who chooses to be resuscitated if he or she stops breathing or…
How to Help Someone Who is Grieving
Reaching out to someone who is grieving can be scary. What if I say or do the wrong thing? What…
Hospice Myths that Hurt Patients and Families
In the last months of life, the hospice program offers important benefits. These include improved emotional status for the family,…
Non-Hospice Agencies Claiming to Provide Hospice Care
A growing number of home care agencies are claiming to provide hospice care without being credentialed hospice agencies. Hospice is…
Does Medicare Advantage Limit My Access to Hospice?
With a start date of October 15, open enrollment is right around the corner. It’s the two months out of…
Why Earlier Hospice Is Better
Experts recommend a minimum of three months in hospice.1,2 The unfortunate fact of the matter is that most people receive…
That Sudden Episode of Mental Clarity Near the End of Life. About Terminal Lucidity.
Perhaps you’ve heard of the phenomenon where a dying person who has been confused or sluggish suddenly develops mental clarity…
