Home Health Care and Place of Death in Medicare Beneficiaries With and Without Dementia
Use of home health care during the last 3 years of life was associated with reduced rates of inpatient death without hospice, and increased rates of home death with hospice. Increasing affordable access to home health care can positively affect end-of-life care outcomes for older Americans and their family caregivers, especially those with dementia.
Authors
- Olga Jarrín (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3349-476X)
- Anum Zafar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8565-6345)
- Haiqun Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3114-9671)
- Paul R. Duberstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6882-0898)
- Bei Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6891-244X)
- Hyosin Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9890-7166)
Institutions
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- Oregon State University (US)
- New York University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Gerontologist
- Published
- 2024-10-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnae131
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.09
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences