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How to access hospice care
When a life limiting incurable illness no longer responds to treatment, or when treatment severely diminishes the patient’s quality of life and the patient or their proxy has elected not to pursue further treatment, it’s time to consider hospice care. Entering hospice early with weeks or months of life remaining rather than waiting until death…
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