Hospice Care in the US

1. What are some of the problems identified in ensuring patients' access to and use of hospice care in the US? What would we need to do in order to have hospice become a potentially new paradigm of social health care for an aging society?

2. How might cultural differences affect the experience of dying and death for a patient, his/her family, and the health care professionals who care for them?

*each answer should be around 125 word min. APA format. REFERENCES NEEDED! The book I use is Bioethics in a Changing World (Parks, Wike)