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Palliative & Hospice Care Explained: What It Is, What to Expect, How to Pay For it & How to Find It
What It Is To palliate means to ease discomfort by treating symptoms of an illness. Palliative care promotes the patient's comfort by addressing any and all issues causing physical or emotional pain or suffering. Also known as end-of-life care, hospice is palliative care designed to help the patient through the last stages of a terminal illness. The goal is to keep pain and suffering to a minimum, not to cure the illness-by this point, the patient's doctor has determined that...Read the rest of this article »
Hospice: How to Find & Assess
Gilbert Guide provides listings of hospices in your area, along with advice for finding the hospice that will best suit your individual needs. Hospice care can be provided at home or in a facility setting. Once you've narrowed your choices down, it's important that you meet potential hospice providers in person to determine whether they're a good fit for you. Finding a Hospice Most hospice agencies are licensed by the state and many are certified by Medicare. The National...Read the rest of this article »
What Is…Hospice and Hospice Care?
Hospice is a type of palliative care designed to support a patient through the last stages of a terminal illness, when the goal is no longer to cure the illness. At this point, regular medical treatment is no longer considered beneficial. Instead, the goal of hospice is to minimize pain and suffering. Although hospice care is usually administered in the patient's residence, it can also take place in an inpatient hospice facility. When necessary, hospice services can be called into...Read the rest of this article »
Hospice: How Chaplains Help
Hospice patients and their family members have many wonderful services available to them under the auspices of hospice care. One of these services is spiritual counseling, provided by a chaplain from the hospice’s interdisciplinary team. Hospice chaplains offer spiritual guidance and support and are committed to working with the terminally ill. What are the Rules? Every hospice has a chaplain who can assist with spiritual needs. Some people think they must be religious or practice within a particular denomination...Read the rest of this article »
Living with Dementia: How Hospice Care Can Help
What is dementia? And perhaps just as importantly, what isn’t it? In the coming months, I’ll be writing a series of articles on dementia to address the concerns of caregivers and family members who have a loved one living with dementia. Many people think of hospice care as being for the dying, and therefore not appropriate for someone who has “only” been diagnosed with dementia. However, hospice care can help greatly in the day-to-day living of a person with...Read the rest of this article »
