How Many Nursing-Home Residents Have End-of-Life Care Plans?

Published On: January 7th, 2011

Some 28% of home health care patients, 65% of nursing home residents and 88% of discharged hospice patients had at least one advance directive on file.

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How Many Nursing-Home Residents Have End-of-Life Care Plans?

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judithperes : RT @MyDirectives: RT @DrAngeloER: New post on rewriting the language of end of life care and advance directives: http://t.co/j1TaJZEc #allownaturaldeath

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MyDirectives : RT @DrAngeloER: New post on rewriting the language of end of life care and advance directives: http://t.co/j1TaJZEc #allownaturaldeath

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mariawolters : @gastromom Yeah, my mother-in-law had a very good advance directive. which the family honoured. She was wise, got great palliative care.

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