Dear Judy,
My mother-in-law has Alzheimer’s, but it’s her husband we’re worried about. He is 97 with congestive heart failure, and he faints occasionally and has also fallen.
He can’t stand to show any weakness and gets extremely angry and insulted if you try to do anything to accommodate his disability. I’m afraid this is too much [...]
There are a lot of completely false assumptions about hospice care in America . For instance not a week goes by that I don’t get an email from someone wanting to know if his grandfather (or mother or sister) should “enter” a hospice. Or “go to a hospice” and “be registered there”.
Actually almost all hospice [...]
You can always be sure that if a program or medical movement is going really well, our government will find some way to screw it up. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have done themselves proud this time. In spring they decided to cut back on Medicare reimbursements for hospices across the nation.
What this means [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009