Hospice Support
Hospice Support is a unique type of care created to provide comfort, support, and compassion to patients and their family members in situations where the patient is faced with a terminal illness. Hospice Support is focused on patients’ comfort, not the cure and that’s what makes it unique. Hospice Support at Genesa Home Healthcare & Companion Agency is focused on making the patient comfortable in what might be their last days or weeks.
What does hospice Support at Genesa Home Healthcare & Companion Agency include?
At Genesa Home Healthcare & Companion Agency we prioritize patients needs. Under this we consider the following:
- Patients physical needs which may include
– Pain relief
– Reducing the symptoms of the patient’s illness
– Taking care of all discomfort that comes with patient’s illness - Patient’s emotional and spiritual well-being
– In some instances, this can be equally important as physical health - Following changes in patient’s treatment needs
– Sometimes patients condition outgrows hospice care, and focus needs to be switched to other types of care such as palliative care - The needs of the patients family
Who can receive hospice Support at Genesa Home Healthcare & Companion Agency?
Not everybody can receive hospice Support. Only upon receiving notice from a doctor that patient no longer has benefited from standard treatments and that their life expectancy is six months or less one becomes eligible for hospice care.
Upon filling these requirements a person becomes available to enter hospice Support program at Genesa Home Healthcare & Companion Agency
People who fill these requirements and want to enter Genesa Home Healthcare & Companion Agency hospice Support should know that this type of care can be conducted in patients’ homes, but also if the situation is like that in a nursing home, assisted living, or even at friends or family members home.
Additional services at Genesa Home Healthcare & Companion Agency Hospice Support
If you decide for hospice care at Genesa Home Healthcare & Companion Agency you will get an array of services which include:
- Professional staff
- Pain and symptoms management
- Staff available 24/7
- Education on the subject of hospice care
- Spiritual support
- Social services