Medicare Hospice Benefits Case Study

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Quality of end of life is being able to improve care for terminally ill patients, to focus on how the client would like to spend their last days rather than focusing on why a client is ill. Caring for a terminally ill person is difficult, but to receive help from hospice team who can help support the ill clients as well as the family. Medicare Hospice Benefits give the beneficiary options on what path they would like to take during there last days. intotttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Medicare hospice benefits gives terminally ill individuals a quality of end of life care by providing hospice benefits …show more content…

Stevenson believes the 6month pro-gnosis and having individuals decided between curative and palliative alter the effectiveness of the hospice benefit. I understand author views on both of the concerns. I do believe there should be a pro-gnosis on time left, just for funding purposes. Although hospice benefit has a pro-gnosis if individual live longer than six months they can still utilize the hospice benefit. The decision to choose palliative or curable will be a difficult one, but I understand that Medicare paying for curative and palliative will both expensive. Another barrier I think that people in enroll in the hospice benefit, denial that you be cured, and to stop trying the person may not be ready for what’s ahead even though it inevitable. Sayen expressed that hospice contribute a lot to bennefncairy and their families, by showing support for both parties. It was hard finding what consumers think about the Medicare hospice benefit but after reading the quality of hospice I was able to get an idea on what consumers thought. The barrier lays between the qualities of care between the hospice benefit is not the same quality across the board. Some families receive high quality of care while other experienced bad quality. I believe there are things that Medicare Hospice could be better at doing. I think there should be someone to inspect the quality of services someone is receiving through hospice. The hospice providing support for both terminally ill patient and their families is extremely