Healthcare Utilization and Mortality After Hospice Live Discharge Among Medicare Patients With and Without Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias.

ADRD patients had lower mortality, a longer survival time, a lower rate of hospitalization, and an initially lower but gradually increasing rate of hospice readmission than non-ADRD patients after hospice live discharge. These different trajectories warrant further investigation of the eligibility of their initial hospice enrollment. Black patients had significantly worse outcomes after hospice live discharge compared with White patients.