Palliative care slashes ED visits, hospitalizations in people living at home with dementia: study

Palliative care slashes ED visits, hospitalizations in people living at home with dementia: study 
McKnights Long-Term Care News; by Kristen Fischer; 1/30/25 
A program that provides palliative care to people with dementia and their caregivers lowered the number of emergency department visits and hospitalizations by approximately half in about a year, a new study shows. Those who benefitted the most from the Indiana Palliative Excellence in Alzheimer Care Efforts (IN-PEACE) initiative were Black people and those with lower incomes. A report detailing the findings was published in JAMA ... The 50% decrease in emergency department visits and hospitalizations among people who received the intervention shows that the program can keep some people with dementia out of the hospital, where they can develop complications and functional declines.