Internal and government vaccine requirements have hospices walking a fine line between the need to protect staff, patients and their families while also considering employees’ personal choices and medical or religious exemptions...

Antipsychotic drugs—which for decades have faced criticism as “chemical straitjackets”—are dangerous for older people with dementia, nearly doubling their chance of death from heart problems, infections, falls and other ailments...

The number of dementia patients is expected to rise by 40%, or 139 million people globally, by 2050, according to new data from the World Health Organization.

Capital Caring Health—the mid-Atlantic’s leading nonprofit provider of hospice and advanced illness care—today announced the award of $500,000 from the Neal C. Nichols Family Foundation, Inc...

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in its final hospice payment rule for 2022 provided clarification around the election statement addendum requirement.

St. Francis Reflections Lifestage Care is proud to announce it has been renewed as a Level Five Partner with We Honor Veterans, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

Delta Care Rx is inviting all hospice providers to claim the prescription medication rebates to which they are entitled. With its new Hospi-Rebates™ program, Delta Care will ensure hospices receive prescription rebates that up to now have likely been either forfeited or received and retained in large part by their pharmacy benefit managers (PBM)...

New York state-based Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo is requiring all staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in a two-phase approach. Vaccinations will be mandatory with the exception of staff members who have approved medical or religious exemptions.

Dr. Won Lee began her initial visit to a new homebound patient, Almeta Trotter, last month by asking about her life, her health and how she was managing in her apartment in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, shared with her longtime partner and a parakeet...