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Read a new essay by Bruce Jennings exploring the tough issues surrounding under-utiliation of hospice services by persons affected by late-stage Alzheimer Disease. AD was listed on the death certificates of only 23,000 of the 2.5 million people who died last year. But in fact many more than that, maybe as many as 100,000 actually died with Alzheimer's. No one knows for sure how many AD patients are enrolled in hospice programs each year, but a good estimate is that about 7 percent of the nation's hospice patients are individuals with dementia.
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Last Updated: 07:21:11 03/17/2004
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