When a relative goes under Hospice care does this automatically mean they assume their final days are soon? - hospice care of southeast florida
My grandfather was now in hospice care, and I'm not sure what that means. I searched the site and everything, but can only find that tries to end patient days of simple and painless. Someone please tell me?
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Hospice Care Of Southeast Florida When A Relative Goes Under Hospice Care Does This Automatically Mean They Assume Their Final Days Are Soon?
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Selecting Hospice care means that you have an illness or you are facing a life-limiting injury, hospice and palliative care involve a team-oriented approach to expert medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support expressly tailored to the individual person. When you elect to use your hospice benefit, you are choosing not to persue curative treatments but, pain managment treatments which will allow you to have the best quality of life possible in the specific medical condution you are dealing with at that time. Some people choose to aggressively seek a cure for their illness until they have exhausted all possible medical avenues. They may then choose to go to hospice and yes, live on a short time after electing hospice care. Other people may learn of their illness and choose to never try curative treatments. For example, an elderly patient who learns late in life they have cancer and do not choose to have chemotherapy. In this case, as long as it is determind by the doctors caring for the patient, that they would live six months or less to live if their illness ran its normal course, they too may elect hospice care. In this case, the patient may only live a short time but, they may also live many months on hospice care services and fully enjoy their end of life. I would urge you to speak with the staff at Hospice Care of Southeast Florida. Though I do not live in the area, I know many of the staff there. From Susan, the CEO, throughout all the office and patient care team, the take great pride in caring for their community. I am sure they would welcome your call. Their number is 800-372-1757.
ReplyDeleteThis means that doctors have pronounced the patient as terminal, with no hope of recovery. This also means that GPs and patients (and patient, even if still have) in conscious agreed not to resuscitate the patient if he / she must begin to die, too. Patients receiving only supportive (palliative oxygen, analgesics, etc.) and nature take its course. Hospice is a wonderful thing for the terminally ill. Palliative care workers to ensure not only in order that the patient's last days are as comfortable as possible, but also help the family cope with the impending loss. When a patient enters hospice palliative care may have only hours to live, but sometimes up to several months.
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