Affinity Care Hospice uses what Cuthbert calls a service intensity model. While Medicare gives every hospice a certain amount ...

Despite having a higher risk of mortality, Medicare beneficiaries who have dementia are less likely to be referred to palliative care than other Medicare beneficiaries, according to a new study ...

Each November, HomeCare & Hospice joins communities across the nation in recognizing National Hospice & Palliative Care Month, a time to reflect on the comfort, dignity and compassion that hospice ...

Medicare provides roughly 67 million Americans with health care coverage for a wide range of medical services and items ...

The government shutdown has delayed the usual release of the 2026 Medicare home health final rule, leaving providers in limbo ...

Among 200 eligible patients with a life expectancy of 6 months or less, access to palliative blood transfusions was of ...

A Medicare project GUIDE recently launched across the country and provides free support for people living with dementia and ...

Hospice Maui volunteer Nane Aluli serenades a patient. The 47-year-old agency is using a new patient outcomes and evaluation tool designed to give care teams a better understanding of each patient’s ...

Every year, millions of Americans with serious illnesses find themselves caught in a dangerous limbo: not sick enough to qualify for hospice, but far too ill to be served by our traditional healthcare ...

Older adults who have serious illness before undergoing elective surgery had hospital stays twice as long as similarly aged ...