Barney Frank, a retired member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, has entered hospice care at 86.
On April 28, the former politician confirmed the news to Politico as he copes with congestive heart failure. He is now in hospice care at his Ogunquit, Maine, home, where he lives with his husband.
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