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| Characterizing hospice services in the United States | | Author(s) | Maureen A Smith, Christopher Seplaki, Mark Biagtan |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 48, no 1, February 2008 |
| Pages | pp 25-31 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Terminal care ; Medical care ; Therapeutic services [domiciliary] ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Although caregivers desire specific information about hospice programmes, there is little descriptive information available. The authors identified four types of service provided by US hospice services considered important by caregivers: medications and treatments; rehabilitative care; emotional, social and spiritual support; and practical support (e.g. continuous home care). They used data from the 2000 National Home and Hospice Care Service. Agencies were categorised into service mixes reflecting combinations of the service types by using a grade-of-membership model to score each agency. Of the 11419 agencies represented in the data, 52% reflected some mix of services from all four service types. The remaining agencies provided service mixes that reflected relatively few or no services from at last one of the four service types. Specifically, about 7% had relatively few or no medications and treatment services, 6% lacked rehabilitative care, 26% lacked emotional/social/spiritual support, and about 10% lacked multiple services. When compared to agencies that reflected a mix of all four services, agencies that lacked multiple services could be distinguished by their lack of formal certification as either a hospice or home health agency. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080819202 A |
| Classmark | LV: LK: N3: 4C: 7T |
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