Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, Overcoming Barriers

Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, Overcoming Barriers

Too many Americans die unnecessarily bad deaths, with inadequate palliative support, inadequate compassion, and inadequate human presence and witness. A report contributes to the broad goal of improving end-of-life care by addressing specific problems in access to and delivery of hospice care.

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Veröffentlicht in:The Hastings Center report 2003-03, Vol.33 (2), p.S3-S59
Hauptverfasser: JENNINGS, BRUCE, RYNDES, TRUE, D'ONOFRIO, CAROL, BAILY, MARY ANN
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Bioethics
Care and treatment
Chronic diseases
Communities
Death
Death & dying
Diseases
Female
Health care access
Health care organizations
Health Care Reform
Health Services Accessibility - ethics
Hospice care
Hospice Care - organization & administration
Humans
Male
Medicare
Nursing homes
Palliative care
Palliative treatment
Physicians
Population Dynamics
Social policy
Terminally ill persons
United States
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Zusammenfassung:Too many Americans die unnecessarily bad deaths, with inadequate palliative support, inadequate compassion, and inadequate human presence and witness. A report contributes to the broad goal of improving end-of-life care by addressing specific problems in access to and delivery of hospice care.
ISSN:0093-0334
1552-146X