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- Title
Hospice: Improving the Quality of Life for the Terminally Ill.
- Authors
FRANKLIN, MONICA J.; STILES, SUSIE
- Abstract
The article provides advice on when a patient should choose hospice medical care, focusing on efforts to improve the quality of life for terminally ill patients as of 2014. America's Medicare health insurance program is addressed, along with information about patients who have end-stage cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. A hospice-related study in the "Journal of the American Medical Association" is mentioned, along with palliative care models and a medical patient's right to die with dignity.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HOSPICE care; TERMINALLY ill; QUALITY of life; MEDICARE laws; ALZHEIMER'S patients; RIGHT to die; CANCER patient medical care; TERMINAL care &; society; MEDICAL care; HUMAN services
- Publication
Tennessee Bar Journal, 2014, Vol 50, Issue 6, p26
- ISSN
0497-2325
- Publication type
Article