When Is It Time for Hospice?
You may want to discuss hospice care with your physician if any or all of the following are present in your loved one:
- Progressive declining health, despite treatment
- Increased or uncontrollable pain
- Frequent hospitalizations
- Repeat or multiple infections
- Progressive or profound weakness and fatigue
- Shortness of breath with or without oxygen
- Decreased ability to perform activities of daily living
- Alterations in mental status
- Exhausted patient and family or caregivers
- The desire to stop aggressive treatments
What is Hospice Really?
Hospice provides something more for patients when a cure is not an option. It is a medical care model focused on comfort.
Hospice care aims to manage the patient’s symptoms while supporting their quality of life. It provides support for family caregivers, too.
Understanding what hospice is — and isn’t — can help patients and families decide whether to choose this type of care.
Hospice Philosophy
Hospice Care is a philosophy of care, its viewpoint of which is accepting death as the final stages of life.
The goal is to enable one to continue an alert, pain-free life and to manage other symptoms so that our loved ones’ last days may be spent with dignity and quality, surrounded by families and friends. Hospice care affirms life and does not hasten or postpone death. Hospice care treats the person rather than the disease.
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