[Utilization] Hospice care for those with dementia falls far short of meeting people’s needs at the end of life

[Utilization] Hospice care for those with dementia falls far short of meeting people’s needs at the end of life 
The Conversation, Maria J Silveira, University of Michigan; 4/1/24
... Strikingly, only 12% of Americans with dementia ever enroll in hospice. Among those who do, one-third are near death. This is in stark contrast to the cancer population: Patients over 60 with cancer enroll in hospice 70% of the time. In my experience caring for dementia patients, the underuse of hospice by dementia patients has more to do with how hospice is structured and paid for in the U.S. than it does patient preference or differences between cancer and dementia.