article thumbnail

How Health Literacy, Education Influences a Patients’ Hospice Experience

Hospice News

Providing education and fostering health literacy among the seriously ill, their families and surrogate decision makers is crucial to ensuring a positive patient experience in hospice care. When it comes to the patient experience in hospice care, what do you see are the biggest problems or barriers that need to be addressed?

Caretaker 130
article thumbnail

How Fraudulent Hospices Evade Regulators

Hospice News

Good hospice care, because of its holistic, patient- and family-centered compassionate approach to the dying, is a godsend,” Gurian told Hospice News in an email. Scammer hospices enroll patients without informed consent. Scammer hospices are harvesting enrollment numbers.

Hospice 291
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Bereaved Families Face ‘Devastating’ Impacts of Hospice Fraud

Hospice News

The impacts of fraudulent activity in hospice on patients and their families can be devastating,” Kraus told Hospice News. It’s calming all these fears in a family just trying to get to the bottom of what happened [and] whether it was a fraudulent hospice election. Was informed consent given?

article thumbnail

Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

Who do you give informed consent to? Hope 44:13 So I think a much bigger concern is why is that person who has an overwhelmingly likely chance of dying in the next six months, why is that person being denied access to federal benefits in the form of hospice care? Past self or current self? Hope 44:35 I know that they are.

Feeding 205