Mortality, hospice use rates differ in assisted living communities depending on whether memory care is offered

Mortality, hospice use rates differ in assisted living communities depending on whether memory care is offered
McKnights Senior Living, by Kimberly Bonvissuto; 4/4/24
Assisted living communities that provide memory care services may attract residents closer to the end of life or promote hospice use at the end of life compared with assisted living communities without such services, according to the findings of a new study. ... Researchers from the Brown University School of Public Health, the University of Melbourne and the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing examined whether end-of-life outcomes — mortality and hospice use — differed between assisted living facilities with and without memory care services among 15,152 residents who moved into larger communities between 2016 and 2018.
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