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If you are out of options it is time to consider choosing palliative treatment vs. continuing a no longer effective curative treatment plan, that might in fact compromise quality of life and time spent with family. The target can then transition to making the person feel as comfortable as you can. This is when hospice services offer patients, families and caregivers choices for symptom management. Patients and families can establish a new goal which would be to achieve the best possible quality of life. Hospice provides care within the patient's own home, a nursing home, assisted living and Alzheimer's facilities.


Hospice palm springs
During the past, hospices were associated with only providing maintain cancer patients. This is no more the case and hospice care also serves patients within the final stages of lung, heart or liver disease, dementia, Lou Gehrig's disease, ms, Parkinson's disease, stroke, and AIDS. The service is available to anyone with a life-limiting illness.



A Hospice care program accepts Medicare and Medicaid as 100% coverage for the care. There are no out-of-pocket expenses for the patient or the patients family. Other insurance providers also pay for hospice services. When someone does not have insurance, they are still capable to receive hospice care in many instances.



There are four levels of care hospice can provide, depending on the patient's current needs. Routine (in your own home) care; continuous care for acute symptom management (in order to avoid patient from unnecessary hospitalization); respite care (to deliver family/caregivers relief) and in-patient care (in designated hospice unit) for uncontrolled symptom management that cannot be provided at home. All levels of care are covered by Medicare and Medicaid.



Hospice care is often a family-centered approach that includes a team of professionals: the patient's physician, hospice medical director, RNs, social workers, chaplains, a dietitian, counselors, therapists, home health aides and hospice-trained volunteers. If you're interested in becoming a hospice volunteer, complete training programs are available to help fulfill your calling to the rewarding mission. The team works together by focusing on the patient's along with their family's needs, including physical, emotional, social and spiritual aspects, along with providing needed medications, medical equipment and supplies.



There also is a year of continued support intended for the family following the patient's death. Grief counselors appraise the family's coping skills to find out which level of bereavement support is needed in that first year after their loss.