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Choosing the Right Hospice for End of Life Care
Choosing the right Hospice Care is a difficult personal decision. Know whatquestions to consider before making an informed choice.
Choosing hospice care and the right hospice to serve you is apersonal decision. If contemplating hospice care, you or your lovedone must have been diagnosed by a physician with a "terminalillness”. No one is ever prepared for such a pronouncement.To be "certified” for hospice care, the doctor must state thatstatistically, the illness may cause death within six months or less.Some patients live longer than six months, some for years. The bottom line when faced with aterminal illness is to live life as fully as possible for every day and every hour is precious.
That is where hospice care comes in.
Hospice is not a place, it's a way of caring.
Quality hospice care can make the difference between unbearable pain symptoms, overwhelmingstress and living peacefully and as pain free as possible to the very end. Hospice is about living,dignity and caring for one another. Hospice is a way of caring; not a place. Hospice serves the familyas well as the patient.
A decision to use hospice services does not mean that you are giving up;it is an affirmation of the meaning of your life.
It allows you to optimize thetime you have, control symptoms, and do the necessary things you need to do.For families and caregivers, hospice provides the support and training to dealwith the unknown and the crisis that often accompanies the approach of death.Dealing with symptoms related to a terminal illness involves unique applicationsof medications and ways of administering medications that provide for thepatient’s comfort and well-being. Many physicians and nurses, who are notexperienced in hospice care, do not know how to deal with these symptoms and pain management.
Hospice care is a special kind of care that accepts dying as a natural part of life.
When death is inevitable, hospice seeks neither to hasten nor postpone it.Choosing hospice care means choosing to optimize the quality of life, it is not acurative treatment but serves to promote the comfort and peace of the patient andthe family. Hospice is a team approach to support the patient and family throughoutthe course of the illness in a holistic manner.
Once a decision has been made to seek hospice assistance, a positive stephas been made to make the last days of life more meaningful and
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