Krista Harrison and research team publish study in JAGS

Krista Harrison, Irena Cenzer, Alexander K Smith, Lauren J Hunt, and Kenneth E Covinsky, along with colleagues at Mount Sinai, published a study in JAGS entitled: "Functional and clinical needs of older hospice enrollees with coexisting dementia." This study uses the National Health Aging and Trends Study (NHATS) linked to Medicare claims and finds that hospice enrollees with dementia coexisting with another terminal illness have high functional needs comparable to enrollees with principal hospice diagnoses of dementia, and high clinical needs comparable to hospice enrollees with no dementia.