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Hospice care administered in the home is seen as higher quality than hospice care administered in an assisted living community or a nursing home, according to a new study from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, compared the quality of hospice services provided for patients living at home, in assisted living communities and in nursing homes, as perceived by their family members. In writing the study, researchers combed through the results of a federally mandated quality survey for 7,510 hospice patients over the age of 18.
The results showed that 67.8% of respondents reported that the home hospice care provider for their loved ones was “excellent,” beating out hospice care in assisted living communities (64.3%) and nursing homes (55.1%).