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Most people choose to get hospice care at home. However, inpatient hospice facilities, hospitals, and some nursinghomes also provide services. Hospice care prioritizes your comfort, dignity, and wishes — and can help you and your family cope better during this time.
One major benefit of having hospice services is that the patient doesn’t ever need to leave home for medical support. Hospice team members travel to the patient. Home” is where the patient resides whether it is a house, an apartment, a room in a family member’s home, or a nursinghome.
There are a variety of ways that hospice care providers can help relieve pain for their patients. Medication is often used to control pain, and hospicenurses are trained in how to administer medications safely and effectively. They can also offer grief counseling to help family members deal with the death of a loved one.
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It involves the patient, their family/friends, and the hospice team, all working in sync to provide compassionate end-of-life care. The hospice team may consist of an attending physician, an RN case manager, a home health aide, a chaplain, and a social worker. It also provides grief support.
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