LP>Hi Sondra. The home hospice programs sound good. Perhaps some Canadian
>communities have such a program, but it's not general. Now would not be
>a good time to try to put them in place here, as the trend is to cut
>government health-care spending, and home health care seems to take a
>beating every time there's a round of cuts. Maybe we'll have home
>hospice care at some point in the next century.
Actually, home hospice care is less expensive than institutional hospice
care; so, from a strictly economic viewpoint, it's probably a worthwhile
investment.
Sondra
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