aThese issues continued to trouble the minds of thinkers over the millennia. By the nineteenth century, it was not just Freud, tormented by strange dreams of loss after the death of his father (to say nothing of the cocaine he was sniffing), who ventured in the domain of night, but many...
However, a majority of patients who die during inpatient hospitalization are transitioned to comfort-only measures or have treatment limitations initiated prior to death, such that broad exclusions of patients with hospice care could substantially limit the ability to differentiate mortality outcomes across...
“I was absolutely shocked at how many people reached out to us about not having documents like health-care proxies, advanced directives and durable power of attorney,” she said. “In the past, I found people were generally resistant to the idea.” Not anymore — clients are more than ...