Home Health & Hospice Week

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Hospice Services Help Surviving Spouses Long After Care Ends, Study Shows

The Medicare hospice benefit may be under fire, but there’s no doubt it helps patients — and their families. Researchers led by Professor Katherine Ornstein at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York examined depression in surviving spouses, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The study analyzed data from 1,016 deceased patients and [...]
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