By Randi Belisomo (Reuters Health) – Teens with dying parents don’t benefit as much from hospice services as older members of the family do, a new study suggests. Most of the surveyed adolescents with a parent in hospice had zero or limited contact with staff, researchers reported in the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing. “In hospice, the unit of care is to the patient and family, but kids are being overlooked,” said study author M. Murray Mayo of Ursuline College’s Breen School of Nursing in Pepper Pike, Ohio.
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Hospice teams may be overlooking teenaged family members
