Some facts about Hospice You may not know
FACTS ABOUT HOSPICE YOU MAY NOT KNOW:
1. Hospice care can help people with a terminal illness live more comfortably for months.
2. There are many hospice care locations, including home.
Hospice is wherever you call home.
3. Hospice is available to anyone at any age. Hospice care is always customized to the individual and their family’s needs.
4. Hospice helps bring families peace and comfort.
Receiving hospice care does not mean giving up hope. When given a terminal diagnosis, patients find that hospice services allow them to live life as fully as possible.
5. Hospice can still promote feeling whole in body, mind and spirit.
Each patient and his or her caregivers receive individualized care that meets their unique physical, emotional and spiritually. Hospice care focuses on caring, not curing, and neither hastens nor prolongs the dying process.
6. You still have an active voice in hospice care.
The hospice team will sit down with the patient and family to create an integrated care plan to address each patient's unique needs.
7. Hospice care encompasses the entire family.
Hospice is a family-centered concept of care and focuses as much on the family as on the patient. Following the death of a loved one, hospice provides continuous support for 13 months with individual counseling, grief support groups, and educational resources..
8. Hospice care is covered by most insurance providers.
Hospice services are covered under Medicare Part A, Medicaid and most private insurances. This benefit covers the hospice teams services, medications, supplies and equipment related to a patient's life-limiting illness.
9. Hospice can support patients with any terminal condition.
Hospice serves families dealing with the end stages of many chronic diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, renal disease, HIV/AIDS, pulmonary diseases like COPD and emphysema, cardiovascular and neuromuscular diseases.
10. Hospice is a multidisciplinary treatment approach.
The hospice team will work closely with your primary doctor or other doctor of choice in developing your care plan.
1. Hospice care can help people with a terminal illness live more comfortably for months.
2. There are many hospice care locations, including home.
Hospice is wherever you call home.
3. Hospice is available to anyone at any age. Hospice care is always customized to the individual and their family’s needs.
4. Hospice helps bring families peace and comfort.
Receiving hospice care does not mean giving up hope. When given a terminal diagnosis, patients find that hospice services allow them to live life as fully as possible.
5. Hospice can still promote feeling whole in body, mind and spirit.
Each patient and his or her caregivers receive individualized care that meets their unique physical, emotional and spiritually. Hospice care focuses on caring, not curing, and neither hastens nor prolongs the dying process.
6. You still have an active voice in hospice care.
The hospice team will sit down with the patient and family to create an integrated care plan to address each patient's unique needs.
7. Hospice care encompasses the entire family.
Hospice is a family-centered concept of care and focuses as much on the family as on the patient. Following the death of a loved one, hospice provides continuous support for 13 months with individual counseling, grief support groups, and educational resources..
8. Hospice care is covered by most insurance providers.
Hospice services are covered under Medicare Part A, Medicaid and most private insurances. This benefit covers the hospice teams services, medications, supplies and equipment related to a patient's life-limiting illness.
9. Hospice can support patients with any terminal condition.
Hospice serves families dealing with the end stages of many chronic diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, renal disease, HIV/AIDS, pulmonary diseases like COPD and emphysema, cardiovascular and neuromuscular diseases.
10. Hospice is a multidisciplinary treatment approach.
The hospice team will work closely with your primary doctor or other doctor of choice in developing your care plan.