Family Medicine Resident

November 2, 2010

End-of-Life Care for Patients With Advanced Dementia – NYTimes.com

Filed under: Uncategorized — goron32 @ 6:09 pm

End-of-Life Care for Patients With Advanced Dementia – NYTimes.com.

Dementia can be more devastating to the loved ones than the patient because the patient has no real grasp of what is going on.  Hospice provides such a benefit to dying patients and their families, but very few dementia patients are included because the course of their disease can be so slow.  This NY Times article looks at the issue of Why so few dementia patients receive hospice care.

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