Even though the United States spends tens of billions of dollars on health-care research, little is known about the quality of death for its citizens. To correct that, a report from Brown University in Providence, R.I., describes a new study that will examine patients with terminal illnesses and their families. The study will be financed not by the government, but by the private health group the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The results will be made available on the World Wide Web when finished. Salt Lake City's Deseret News explains how hospices are an answer for many terminally ill patients, although they're often misunderstood, says Pat Kruger, administrator at Rocky Mountain Hospice.
Folks concentrate on the death, rather than living life as fully as they can.
They associate hospice with a death sentence, but we focus on quality of life.