"Good end-of-life care out of reach for many Black nursing home residents"
U.S. News & World Report quoted Dr. Vickie Mays about research that shows that minority nursing home residents are less likely to receive care.
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Palliative care can be a godsend in the final days of one's life, but new research shows that Black and Hispanic nursing home residents are far less likely to receive it than their white peers are.
Overall, nursing homes in the Northeast provided the most palliative care, while those in the South provided the least amount of this type of care.
But in the Northeast and West, the study found, nursing homes that had higher numbers of Black residents provided less of this type of care. In all regions, the more Hispanic residents there were in a nursing home, the fewer palliative care services there were.
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Dr. Ron Andersen is the Wasserman Professor Emeritus in the UCLA Departments of Health Policy and Management.
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EMPH Academic Program Director with expertise in healthcare marketing, finance, and reproductive health policy, teaching in the EMPH, MPH, MHA program
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Dr. Michelle S. Keller is a health services researcher whose research focuses on the use and prescribing of high-risk medications.
Nationally recognized health services researcher and sociomedical scientist with 25+ years' experience in effectiveness and implementation research.
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Professor of Community Health Sciences & Health Policy and Management, and Associate Dean for Research
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