Question 1

what is hospice care?

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Relieving suffering: Hospice care focuses on relieving or preventing suffering rather than trying to treat the underlying medical problems of patients with terminal illnesses.  Hospice care may involve many types of health care professionals and will focus not just on physical but also emotional and social aspects of end-of-life care.

Question 2

is hospice care passionate?

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Another thought: I'm wondering if you meant, is hospice care compassionate? The idea of hospice is to provide specialized medical care for someone who is near the end of life, and their family--and usually patients and families find that hospice care is very compassionate--at its best hospice addresses all the aspects of dying.

Question 3

hello doctors, what does hospice care really mean?

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It is comfort care: End of life care is often called hospice care. The goal here is to provide comfort care, minimize suffering and let nature take its course. No curative therapy is used any longer once hospice care has been requested.

Question 4

how does hospice work?  who decides when to put a patient in hospice care?

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You decide when : Hospice focuses on treating symptoms and proving comfort care in patient who are terminally ill or have failed to respond to treatment or have declined aggressive interventions such as use of a ventilator, dialysis, or feeding tubes.  Many conditions qualify including cancer, heart failure, emphysema, cirrhosis, aids, kidney failure, dementia, stroke. You or your family  determine when it's time.

Question 5

who provides hospice care? cnas?

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A team!: Hospice teams involve a doctor, nurses, social workers, physical therapists, pastoral care, volunteers, choreworkers, and others. A patient and family will typically interact with all of these clinicians over the course of care. Most hospice have a primary nurse who is the clinician they see the most.

Question 6

what are  different types of hospice care?

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See below: Hospice can be done at home with caregiver present, inpatient hospice at the local hospital for acute management only or respite or nursing home while the loved one has a long term care placement or respite. The level of care is depend on the severity of symptoms, meaning that more care is needed with worsening of symptoms and actively dying.

Question 7

at what point does a person do hospice care?

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WHEN A CHRONIC: Health condition has rendered them unable to care for themselves and are terminal, expected to live 6 mos or less.

Question 8

please tell me what does "hospice care" mean?

Accepted Answer

End of life care: Hospice is offered as a comforting measure to patients with terminal diseases, like cancer. This is the best way to relive distress and suffering of advanced cancers which are no longer controllable

Question 9

what are some of the benefits for hospice care?

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Many: There are many benefits from active pain control to social supports for the family as well as the patient. My experience with hospice workers has been that they are extremely compassionate and caring and very responsive to the patient and family members. They can help patients stay in their home environment which is often what they want.

Question 10

i need your expertise, is hospice care only for nurses?

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COMFORT CARE: When physician certifies he feels pt has less the 6 months to live!

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