Since 1960, an inverted yield curveâone with higher short-term rates than long-term ratesâhas preceded all five recessions. So how does an inverted yield curve signal a coming recession? Although term premiums do change over time, most of the day-to-day movement in the yield curve reflects changes in market expectations of future short-term interest rates. A steepening yield curveâthat is, one with an increasing spread between long- and short-term ratesâusually implies an expectation of higher short-term rates in the future.
1 Hospice care is for people with cancer that cannot be cured who are expected to live six months or less. 2  It is high-quality, compassionate care that focuses on relieving symptoms and helping patients and families cope with death and dying.
Hospice ONLY comes in after the patient requests Hospice AND the primary care physician certifies, as a best GUESS, that the patient is not expected to live beyond the next 6 months. In requesting Hospice care, the patient has decided to not seek any involved treatments (heroic type) but rather to choose to die with dignity, free of pain. NO ONE knows when death will occur, and it has many times taken a year or two.