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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

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2 Researchers analyzed Medicare records for 18,777 patients who died with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), aggressive NHL, or mantle cell lymphoma. Compared to all Medicare beneficiaries who died with cancer, patients with lymphoma proved 23% less likely to receive hospice, and they tended to have fewer days in hospice.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. With Goodwin Hospice patients, not as much because they have that support from the bereavement group at Goodwin Hospice. Jane: We’re following behind the birth doula movement. I would say 15 to 20 years, death doulas have been around.