The New Old Age Blog: An Easier Death, And Less Costly, Too

By PAULA SPAN, NY Times: Health
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Saving money isn’t really the point of hospice care. Still, a new study found that cancer patients in hospice incurred lower costs in the last year of life than those not in hospice.

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