Gabrielle Baldridge

Jane Blakelock
ENG 2100-30
February 2, 2016
Annotated Bibliography 6 Resources
1. Jennings, B., & Morrissey, M. B. (2011). Health Care Costs in End-of-Life and
Palliative Care: The Quest for Ethical Reform. Journal Of Social Work In EndOf-Life & Palliative Care, 7(4), 300-317. doi:10.1080/15524256.2011.623458
This interests me because I wanted to know the behind the scenes aspect of
healthcare. The behind the scenes aspect of this very interesting, seeing how much
healthcare really is, and seeing how patients are really being taken care for that kind of
money is very interesting to me. Some evidence that can be used in this paper will be the
statistics from how much patients families are really paying for their family members
quality of care. This article is full of statistics, along with how much healthcare has
actually risen in a couple of years. The audience could literally go for anyone who is in
this situation. But the real audience is for people who are looking out for themselves or
their loved ones, seeing if the medical expenses will bankrupt them or if that money is
worth it.
2. Nakhoda, Z. (2010). End-of-Life Care and the Medicare Hospice Benefit: The High
Cost of End-of-Life Care. Journal Of Financial Service Professionals, 64(2), 2428.
This article in particular interests because of the hospice aspect of this. Hospice is
another form of end of life care that some families take. I work very closely to families
going through hospice. Its a hard time for the families. This article gives you what the
families go through quality wise and money wise. Things in this article can give you
information on hospice care and what is included in the end of life care. End of life care
is very crucial for families and patients. It also an article that shows what a patient goes
through if they have Medicare. The audience for this is 80+plus and their family
members again. But this is more important for those immediate family members who
need to know how to incorporate their loved ones Medicare into the situation and how
good of care they really need.
3. Baily, M. A. (2011). Futility, Autonomy, and Cost in End-of-Life Care. Journal Of
Law, Medicine & Ethics, 39(2), 172-182 11p. doi:10.1111/j.1748720X.2011.00586.x
This snippet of an article is amazing. The concepts of so many
perspectives are shown, like for example the autonomies of patients, family members and

doctors. Then it even expands to tax payers and premium payers and their perspective. I
think it is very important that all of these sides are taken very seriously when deciding
what to do at the end of someones life. The main point of this article gives you the
different views of different people. This is incredibly important. Doctors need to see what
the patients want, if applicable, and if not what their families want. They decide the
ethical reasoning behind their decision of treatments. I would say the audience for this
would be anyone put in the position to make the decision, ethically and financially, to see
what to do at ones last days on this earth.
4. Fine, P. (2013). Care at the end-of-life: one chance to get it right. Journal Of Pain &
Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, 27(2), 110-111.
doi:10.3109/15360288.2013.788601
Working in healthcare, and in particular to patients at the end of their life is very
sad yet rewarding, knowing you may have changed their life or their families life in good
ways. I think the direct patient care is important to consider in choosing where to go
with your family member. I think its important to bring in the facts of what happens in
the end of your life. This article describes the process of getting to hospice. But in that
process, its sometimes a failed attempt and that cost is a deadly one. Sometimes very few
make it though the whole process and some pass away before the major life changes
occur. I think the audience for this would be anyone or families of anyone who has been
diagnosed with a serious disease. This article is small, but it gives this audience a clear
deception of what happens when your cross over to hospice care and what can happen if
death becomes before this process is fulfilled.
5. Spetz, J. (2012). Economic and Legal Issues in End-of-Life Care: An Interview with
Michael Ash and Stephen Arons. Nursing Economic$, 30(3), 136-139 4p
In this article you can see three people having a dialog on why they became so
interested on the topic of end of life care and the issues it comes with. It tells you
examples on how hospitals and staff try not to over use medication so the finances will
not be high for the patient and their families when they get out. This will be one of the
examples that I will use in the paper but it will be in more detail. The audience of this
will be families and patients, or anyone who would like to be educated on this subject.
6. Aldridge, M. D., & Kelley, A. S. (2015). The Myth Regarding the High Cost of End-ofLife Care. American Journal Of Public Health, 105(12), 2411-2415 5p.
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302889
This article is all statistics, which is a great deal of what this research paper needs
to be about. This article is where I will get majority of my research. It has data from how
many patients are at the end of life to a chart with a budget of care. In the paper this kind
of research is what will make the paper stable and steady. Itll be very easy to understand

for those who have trouble understanding. The audience is for anyone who wants or
needs to be educated on the statistics of this subject.