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The Sun News: Hospice Patients Defying The Odds
Jul 09, 2006“Thousands of patients who check into hospices expecting to die are winning reprieves instead.
Sometimes attention from loved ones and quality care from hospice staff turn things around. Or doctors guess wrong when they predict that death is near. And sometimes long-odds medical miracles happen.
Whatever the reason, roughly 100,000 U.S. hospice patients will win new leases on life this year. That number, which is based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures, is expected to increase as baby boomers age. It’s a trend that poses exotic challenges – some wrenching, some magnificent – for hospices and for hospice patients and their families. . . ”
Read the full story: The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, S.C.)