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The Crisis of U.S. Hospice Care: Family and Freedom at the End of Life
By Braswell, Harold
- ISBN
- 9781421429823
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins
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Reviewed on February 7, 2020 | SCI/TECH
Braswell (health care ethics, Saint Louis Univ.) explores the political pressures and practical realities that led the founders of the hospice movement in the United States to make family caregivers an integral part of modern hospice care. The author argues that one of the major failures of the hospice system is its reliance on informal networks of unpaid caregivers—most often family members—who manage daily tasks such as ba...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
