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Hospice Services Help Surviving Spouses Long After Care Ends, Study Shows

Published on Fri Jun 05, 2015

The Medicare hospice benefit may be under fire, but there’s no doubt it helps patients — and their families. Researchers led by Professor Katherine Ornstein at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York examined depression in surviving spouses, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The study analyzed data from 1,016 deceased patients and [...]
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