Pilot Testing of Aliviado Dementia Care-Hospice Edition —A Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Program for Better Hospice Dementia Care (FR421D)

Forty-five percent of U.S. hospice recipients have either a primary diagnosis of advanced dementia or dementia as a comorbidity. However, largely due to the lack of experience and knowledge of dementia-related symptomatology, hospice clinicians are underprepared to treat patients without hospice-specific dementia training programs.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - January 25, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Shih-Yin Lin, Catherine Schneider, Alycia Bristol, Kimberly Convery, Abraham Brody Source Type: research