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Hospice
Care
What
Is Hospice Care?
Hospice is a concept rooted
in the centuries-old idea of offering a place of shelter
and rest, or "hospitality" to weary and sick travelers
on a long journey. Dame Cicely Saunders at St. Christopher's
Hospice in London first applied the term "hospice"
to specialized care for dying patients in 1967. Today, hospice
care provides humane and compassionate care for people in
the last phases of incurable disease so that they may live
as fully and comfortably as possible.
Hospice is a philosophy of care. The hospice philosophy
recognizes death as the final stage of life and seeks to
enable patients to continue an alert, pain-free life and
to manage other symptoms so that their last days may be
spent with dignity and quality, surrounded by their loved
ones. Hospice affirms life and neither hastens nor postpones
death. Hospice care treats the person rather than the disease;
it emphasizes quality rather than length of life. It provides
family-centered care involving the patient and family in
making decisions. Care is provided for the patient and family
24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Hospice care can be given
in the patient's home, a hospital, nursing home, or private
hospice facility. Most hospice care in the US is given in
the home.
Hospice
care is appropriate when you can no longer benefit from
curative treatment and life expectancy is, at most, no longer
than 6 months. You, your family, and your doctor decide
together when hospice services should begin. If your condition
improves or the disease goes into remission, you can be
discharged from the hospice program and return to active
treatment, if desired. Hospice care may be resumed at a
later time.
Our
staff here at One Call Homecare Network will help your family through
this time. We are well trained and will make sure that your
loved one will receive the best of treatment in their time
of need. We have plenty of aides currently working with hospice care patients in Aventura, Hallandale, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Delray Beach and West Palm Beach.
For
more information call: 1.800.505.3982
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