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How Health Literacy, Education Influences a Patients’ Hospice Experience

Hospice News

We go and we have these living wills, where you don’t necessarily have advanced directives or plans, right only 34% to 36% [of patients] right now have an advance directive. And they’re probably not even coming to the post-acute care world, because they’re so clouded by their experience as a caregiver caretaker for a loved one.

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