What Is Hospice Home Care?

Hospice is special care, administered by an interdisciplinary team, for patients with a life-limiting disease, where no cure or further treatment is beneficial. The focus is highly individualized, offering pain relief and providing emotional, social, medical and spiritual support to the patient and family or support group. Hospice care at home, humane and compassionate, focuses on making the patient as comfortable as possible in a familiar, supportive setting, permitting death with dignity.

What Services Are Offered?

An interdisciplinary team often consisting of physicians, nurses, social workers, home health aides, therapists, clergy and trained volunteers
Pain management and symptom control
Around-the-clock nursing care, when needed, or daily nursing visits when appropriate
Personal care and bathing
Nutritional support and dietary counseling
Special therapies, including massage and physical therapy
Coordination of care, including facilitation of communication between the caretakers, doctors, pharmacists, clergy and funeral directors
Medications, medical supplies and other equipment
Spiritual support for the patient and family or support group
Respite care, offering the patient’s caregivers some time off
Family conferences to share information on the course of the illness, express concerns and feelings, and guidance on the next step
Bereavement care to assist survivors during the grieving process

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