Hospice Improves Care Quality For Older Adults With Dementia In Their Last Month Of Life.

ABSTRACT: The Medicare hospice benefit was originally designed around a cancer disease paradigm but increasingly serves people living with dementia. At this time, almost half of all older adults receiving hospice care have dementia. Yet there is minimal evidence as to whether hospice benefits people living with dementia outside of nursing facilities. We asked whether and how the perceived quality of last-month-of-life care differed between people with and without dementia and whether hospice use among people living with dementia was associated with perceived quality of care compared with the quality of care for those who did not use hospice. We used nationally representative data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study and Medicare claims from the period 2011-17 to examine the impact of hosp

SUBMITTER: Harrison KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9662595 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature