Nov 28, 2023
In part two of our series on the most common hospice diagnoses, Hannah Brightwell, clinical liaison with Harbor Hospice explains about the characteristics and hospice criteria for cancer diagnoses and lung diseases. In part one she explained the hospice criteria for neurological and cardiac diseases.
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Nov 14, 2023
In the early days of hospice care in the United States, cancer was the main reason someone might be admitted to hospice. Now, 50 plus years later, cancer is the third most common diagnosis in hospice. The most common group of diagnoses today are neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, dementia, and Parkinson's,...