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Navigating Hospice Care: A Holistic Guide to End-of-Life Support

Hospice of the North Coast

Key Takeaways The approach of hospice care is centered on offering comfort, support, and an enhanced quality of life for individuals with terminal illnesses. The hospice care team comprises medical experts, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers who collectively address the needs of patients and their families.

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The 7-Minute Scoop: It's OK to Make a Change

Living With Hospice

I had another patient who changed her mind about dying at home. She wanted to die in a facility after she tried being home and saw that it was just too much of a burden on her family. You know, many people on an in home hospice burnout. Nowhere is it written that once you're on hospice, you have to stay there.

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‘Doing Good by Doing Well:’ Founder Jessica McGlory Launches Guaranteed with $6.5 Million Seed Round

Hospice News

So when I was researching what hospice was, I was learning through Googling, instead of necessarily learning from the doctors that that’s what he needed. After that, when he went into in-home hospice, I can’t tell you how much the home hospice aides and the nurses were working so hard to try to give my dad the best experience.

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Episode 26: How Do I Help The Caregiver?

Living With Hospice

Making sure the med logs are current, keeping the incident logs up to date and remembering to write down all the questions that you want to ask the nurses next time or the chaplain or the counselor. And in my experience, they're very few in hospice care either. It was an in home hospice care situation.