A small but growing percentage of the funeral home industry, and the broader death care market, is being gobbled up by private equity-backed firms attracted by high profit margins, predictable income, and the eventual deaths of tens of millions of baby boomers.
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Death Is Anything But A Dying Business As Private Equity Cashes
Posted on 26 September 2022.
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Eating Out 2 Or More Days Weekly Could Shorten Your Life
Posted on 27 March 2021.
Eating out is a popular activity worldwide. But, new research reveals that consuming restaurant food two or more days a week is significantly associated with an increased risk of death.
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Sleep Of Five Hours Or Less May Increase Risk Of Dementia, Death
Posted on 15 February 2021.
Sleep and health are inextricably connected. New research explores the connection between sleep disturbances and deficiencies among older adults and risk of dementia and death.
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Behind COVID Deaths: A Name, A Family, A Story
Posted on 17 December 2020.
More than 300,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States. It is the latest sign of a generational tragedy that leaves in its wake an expanse of grief that cannot be captured in a string of statistics.
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Coronavirus Deadly To Those Over 80, But Many Are Surviving
Posted on 22 June 2020.
Anna Marie Bresnan, who lives at Philadelphia Protestant Home, a retirement community in Northeast Philadelphia, is 84 and has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Patients Want To Die At Home, But Hospice Care Can Strain Families
Posted on 27 January 2020.
When it comes to where we die, the U.S. has reached a tipping point. Home is now the most common place of death, according to new research, and a majority of Medicare patients are turning to hospice services to help make that possible.
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