Why is hospice care important?

When someone you love is facing a life-limiting illness, you and your family want to do whatever you can to ensure he or she gets the very best care. Hospice provides palliative care at the end of life. Palliative care and hospice care: there is a difference. read more

Simply put, hospice care is vital in providing persons and their families a path to a peaceful, comfortable death. You wouldn't think such a thing would be that difficult, or that we would have had to develop a whole medical specialty, class of insurance benefit, and even industry around it, but it is and we have. read more

Hospice care promotes open discussions about "the big picture" with patients and their loved ones. The disease process, prognosis, and realities are often important parts of these discussions. More importantly, the patient's wishes, values, and beliefs are taken into account and become the cornerstone of the hospice plan of care. read more

Palliative care improves the quality of life throughout the treatment of a serious illness by providing practical, emotional and spiritual support. Hospice care is form of palliative care that focuses on relieving symptoms when someone living with a serious illness approaches the end of life. read more