what's a hospice care plan made for and by whom?

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Answer 1

Hospice care is: Usually planned by the hospice team. This includes doctors, nurses, social workers, and clergy. It is designed for people who have an approximately 6 month survival and who have either exhausted more aggressive care possibilites or are too frail. It is not limited to cancer. It is different than palliative care. There time is not critical and treatment is ongoing. Their goal is symptom management.

Answer 2

Team: There is a whole team involved in hospice care that includes a physician, nurses, nursing assistants, clergy, and sometimes music therapists.

Answer 3

Plan of care: It is made by the hospice care team. Each health professional has a different intervention with the patient. Includes medications, nursing, social worker visits, chaplain visits, etc... It is developed while discussing the needs of the patient together.

Answer 4

End of life care.: Hospice is meant for those who seemingly at the end of life, although that end can still be many months away. The emphasis of hospice care is not trying to save the life, but to give comfort to the individual as their death approaches. the decision to pursue hospice is considered by the patient, family members and doctors.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

Dying with Dignity: Hospice is a choice on how one wishes the final chapter of their life to end. Regrettably, medicine has evolved into treating problems rather than patients. If a patient wishes no more heroics, hospitalizations and/or invasive procedures performed; hospice care provides a powerful form of dying with dignity. If the prognosis of less than 6 months to live, it is potentially a great alternative.

Answer 7

Hospice care: provides medical services, emotional and spiritual resources for people who are in the last stages of a serious illness, such as cancer or heart failure. Hospice also helps family members manage the practical details and emotional challenges of caring for a dying loved one. The goal is to keep the patient comfortable and improve the quality of life.

Answer 8

Hospice services: Palliative care at the end of life. They include nursing, assistance with caregivers on a limited basis, chaplaincy, bereavement counseling, social worker and physician care (medical director in many cases). You are covered for many services and this includes medications related to your terminal diagnosis. The hospice team is there to help you transition in the last phase of life.

Answer 9

End of life care.: Hospice is meant for those who seemingly at the end of life, although that end can still be many months away. The emphasis of hospice care is not trying to save the life, but to give comfort to the individual as their death approaches.

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The Dying: Hospice palliative care becomes appropriate when patients and their families decide to forego curative therapies in order to concentrate on maximizing comfort and quality of life, when curative treatments are no longer beneficial, when the burdens of these treatments outweigh the benefits, or when patients are entering the final weeks to months of life.

Answer 11

Sooner : Although hospice care is defined by medicare for any patient with a prognosis of 6 months or less, we often times don't see people come to hospice until they have hours to days. Many physicians think that hospice is only when the patient is "dying, " however the hospice team can provide better care by getting to the know the patient and family over several months rather than hours.

Answer 12

Hospice: Hospice is palliative care for patients who are not expected to live longer than six months. You would use hospice for care for the expertise of the clinical team that surrounds you and your family through that phase of your life.

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End of life care.: Hospice is meant for those who seemingly at the end of life, although that end can still be many months away. The emphasis of hospice care is not trying to save the life, but to give comfort to the individual as their death approaches. We use hospice services when the end of life is drawing near and we want to focus on things like pain relief.

Answer 14

THATS ONE OF THE: Main goals.

Answer 15

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.

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Compassionate : Would probably be the better word. Practitioners are passionate about their work. So, i'd say, yes, hospice is compassionate care. To relieve suffering. Humane, dignified treatment.

Answer 17

Compassionate care.: Hospice is meant for those who seemingly at the end of life, although that end can still be many months away. The emphasis of hospice care is not trying to save the life, but to give comfort to the individual as their death approaches.

Answer 18

No: No but near the end of life, the disease process or dying process may essentially keep the individual confined though either because of symptoms or medications.

Answer 19

No...: Most of hospice care occurs where the patient lives. There are very few "hospice homes" or "inpatient hospice units." most of the time the hospice team makes visit in the patients own home. The goal of hospice is never to "confine" people and at times the team helps people get to certain places as their final wish, like to a wedding or las vegas etc. Quality of life is the key on hospice.

Answer 20

Hospice is a Concept: Hospice is a concept The decision to use the services of a hospice provider is in response to the patient's wishes for end of life care. The patient makes their wishes known to the family as to how they would like their end of life care. They can choose the full range of services from being in a hospital with everything provided to being home and supported in their care. Contact:.http://www.vitas.com/about-us/fast-facts

Answer 21

THAT DEFEATS THE: Purpose based on current definition of hospice care.

Answer 22

Depends...: The problem with saying that a patient must be 'terminal' is that it is hard to predict how long a patient will live, and patients are often reluctant to see themselves as 'terminal'. The result is that patients often start hospice too late--meaning that there is not time to get symptoms really managed, or help the patient and family adjust...It's crisis management at that point.

Answer 23

Who wants to be...: ...Terminal. Its to harsh of a word and will most likely exclude (by their own reluctance) many people who could benefit. It really is for people with a prognosis of 6-12 months (medicare states 6 months or less if the disease runs its normal course) however, in many non-cancer diagnosis (chf, copd, dementia) many patients are admitted and then graduate hospice several times before they die.

Answer 24

End of life care.: Hospice is meant for those who seemingly at the end of life, although that end can still be many months away. The emphasis of hospice care is not trying to save the life, but to give comfort to the individual as their death approaches. The timing of death is variable - days, weeks, months. Patients who are not in some way terminal,would not be candidates for hospice care.

Answer 25

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

Answer 26

Sooner, not later: Most physicians are reluctant to refer to hospice because most think its only for the last moments of life. Hospice is more beneficial when the hospice team can build report and get to know the patient well. It will be easier to manage symptoms as they arise early on to improve quality of life rather than dealing in a crisis mode right at the end.

Answer 27

Also...: Patients can choose hospice care even if they are fully functional and can care for themselves. The only limiting criteria is their diagnosis of 6 months or less and their focus on comfort care. I've known people to work and still travel on hospice care. The focus is quality of life and the hospice team does everything they can to help accomplish that.

Answer 28

End of life care.: Hospice is meant for those who seemingly at the end of life, although that end can still be many months away. The emphasis of hospice care is not trying to save the life, but to give comfort to the individual as their death approaches. The timing of death is variable - days, weeks, months.

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