Home Health Aide The home health aide assists with light around-the-house tasks, provides your loved one with care, and can help educate you, as a caregiver, as to how to best provide end-of-life care for your loved one at home. Hospice Volunteer Hospice volunteers help patients and caregivers by assisting with household tasks, errands, preparing meals, and providing companionship.
Caregiver You, the keystone of the hospice care team, are the primary care provider for your loved one at the end of life, and play a role in nearly every level of care at home. Specialized Therapy Sessions Specialized therapy sessions, like pet therapy visits, art therapy sessions, and other forms of beneficial therapy can be provided to your loved one at home in order to maximize physical, emotional, and spiritual comfort. Psychosocial Counseling A terminal diagnosis brings with it a heavy psychosocial toll.
Emotional and Spiritual Counseling Feelings of regret, anger, and grief are a common occurrence for those nearing the end-of-life. Assistance with Activities of Daily Living Activities like eating, toileting, bathing, and dressing are all normal parts of our daily routine that we would normally take for granted, but may become harder for your loved one as the terminal illness progresses.
Assistance with Patient Care Though caregivers shoulder the majority of care at home, hospice organizations recognize the around-the-clock workload that caregiving demands. Assistance with Tasks and Errands Your focus as a caregiver is continually placed upon the well-being of your loved one; however, your household and everyday life still continues to place demand upon you.
Respite Care The demands place upon you by the caregiving role can quickly lead to burnout. Caregiver Wellness Support In addition to offering respite care, hospice also provides you with support and education concerning self-care and how to best keep physically, emotionally, and spiritually sound while adapting to the caregiving role. End-of-life Care Education Each diagnosis brings with it its own unique challenges for your loved one and for you as a caregiver.
Psychosocial, Emotional, and Spiritual Counseling The stress of caregiving can quickly wear you down, exhausting you physically, mentally, and emotionally. Caregiver Support Education While not every member of your family may be involved in the care of your terminally ill loved one, they can still learn how to support you and your loved one throughout this period.
Psychosocial, Emotional, and Spiritual Counseling The news and progression of a terminal diagnosis can stir powerful emotions between family members and friends. Donate Help bring comfort, healing, and hope. Recommended Reads. The Difference Between Hospice and Palliative Care When considering care options for your loved one, it can be difficult to wade through the terminology used to describe different types of care.
Paying for Hospice Care Jan 29, Understanding Hospice Volunteering Sep 25, References Fine, Robert L. Medical Center. Baylor Health Care System, Hospice care is used when a disease, such as advanced cancer, gets to the point when treatment can no longer cure or control it. In general, hospice care should be used when a person is expected to live about 6 months or less if the illness runs its usual course.
People with advanced cancer should have a discussion with their family members and doctor to decide together when hospice care should begin.
Studies show hospice care often is not started soon enough. It's important to know that you can leave hospice and go into active cancer treatment any time you want. But the hope that hospice brings is a quality life, making the best of each day during the last stages of advanced illness. All hospice providers must offer certain services. But they tend to have different approaches to service, staffing patterns, and types of support services offered.
Palliative care may also be called supportive care, symptom management, or comfort care. It can be given separately from hospice care for example, while still in active cancer treatment , but It's often a part of hospice care if cancer is no longer being treated because it has worsened.
Palliative care does not treat the cancer itself. Instead, it's used to prevent or treat symptoms and side effects as early as possible. As part of hospice care, palliative care looks at how the cancer experience is affecting the whole person and help to relieve symptoms, pain, and stress.
It gives patients options and allows them and their caregivers to take part in planning their care. Ask about payment options before choosing a hospice program. To find out about hospice programs, talk to doctors, nurses, social workers or counselors, or contact your local or state office on aging.
Consider asking friends or neighbors for advice. Remember, hospice stresses care over cure. The goal is to provide comfort during the final months and days of life.
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