Welcome back to No One Gets Out of Here Alive, where we spend time talking about various legislation that impacts delivery of palliative care and hospice services right now. In this episode, we hear from one family as they share their story in dealing with the serious illness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 

Host Tracy Fasolino of Clemson University presents four challenges facing palliative care and hospice services right now. 

No One Gets Out of Here Alive was produced by Tracy Fasolino for Health Affairs Podcast Fellowship Program.
 
Music by Elias Workman. 

This episode is dedicated to Al & Wendy for their amazing bravery and exemplary love. 

Related Links:

• Live hospice discharge: Experiences of families, and hospice staff (National Library of Medicine)
• Live discharge from hospice for people living with dementia isn't “graduating”—It's getting expelled (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society)
• Subjects Sentenced in $150 Million Hospice Fraud Case (Compliance Resource Center)
• The Forgotten and Misdiagnosed Care Transition: Live Discharge From Hospice Care (National Library of Medicine)