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For NC people with dementia, Medicare’s hospice program holds caring comfort, but also contains pitfalls.

By Thomas Goldsmith Sixteen years ago, Tom McCann promised his wife, Kathleen, that she’d always live at home, even though dementia was gradually sapping her memory and limiting her active lifestyle. A retired customer service manager living in Raleigh, Tom, 86, has in recent years used his anti-red-tape skills and his determined grip on her […]