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U.S. Senate Takes Up Supporting Our Seniors Act

Hospice News

While private residences are the most frequently occurring location of care for hospice patients, long-term care facilities come in second, followed by assisted living facilities, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

As well as that really, we need to keep caring forward with what Tim Quill and Amy Abernethy talked about in 2013, about really a big part of our specialty is potentiating the primary palliative care that’s done by non-specialists, and how do we embrace that even further to carry our message further? Alex: Nursing homes.