Geriatric Medicine

From the CDC.

Includes charts on use of hospice services by race & deaths occurring while enrolled in home health care or in a hospice.

Includes the first-ever nationwide survey of home health aides, who provide the majority of direct care to the country’s 2.2 million home health & hospice patients for more than 10,000 home & hospice care agencies in the U.S. From 2007.

Extensive listing of statistical resources for health and health care.

For assessment of 9 symptoms common in cancer patients.

Based on Barthel Index, assesses Activities of Daily Living (Adls) with animated images.

Tools to measure pain & symptoms, functional status, psychosocial care, caregiver assessment, & quality of life. From the National Palliative Care Research Center.

Assess 24 symptoms, from NPCRC.

From Victoria Hospice, Victoria, BC, Canada.