Minority patients with heart failure are less likely to use hospice care than whites, new research finds.

Hospice provides palliative care for the terminally ill. The goal is to ease pain and discomfort, and to focus on quality of life as death approaches. Overall, use of hospice care is increasing, according to researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine.

On my last days of freedom as a Citizen in the United States my opinion is that Minority patients are less likely to use hospice care because they lack of information of the services as whites know. Hospice provides palliative care for the terminally ill. The goal is to ease pain and discomfort, and to focus on quality of life as death approaches. I also read a study of Europe were Citizens abused the services. This is also going to happen in the U.S.