Home Health Care and Hospice Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries With and Without a Diagnosis of Dementia.

ABSTRACT: Background: Home health care is a core benefit of Medicare and Medicaid insurance programs and includes services to improve health, maintain health, or slow health decline. Objective: To examine the relationship between home health care use during the last three years of life and hospice use in the last six months of life among Medicare beneficiaries with and without dementia. Design: Nationally representative retrospective cohort study. Setting/Subjects: Medicare beneficiaries with at least three years of continuous enrollment who died in 2019 in the United States (n = 2,169,422). Measurements: The primary outcome was hospice use, and the secondary outcome was hospice duration. The independent variable was a comp

SUBMITTER: Kim HD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11310562 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature