No one likes to contemplate their death, but it is something we all must face. For patients struggling with a terminal illness, hospice treatment offers many benefits. It can provide a chance to say goodbye to friends and family members, to recall a life well-lived, and to come to terms with things. Ultimately, it can […]

Human beings don’t like to contemplate their mortality. However, it’s something that we’ll all need to face in the end. Death is a natural part of life – the opposite side of the circle, so to speak. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to deal with, though. While people will struggle with implications of their own

Most of us don’t give hospice care a lot of thought until we need it. However, once an illness has been diagnosed as terminal, hospice becomes an important consideration. Patients and their family members should understand how hospice care works to be prepared for the process. In this guide, we’ve outlined the general process behind

When you think of hospice care, what comes to mind first? Chances are that it’s pain management. There’s a good reason for that. This type of care is focused on making the patient comfortable, which does include managing their pain. However, there are so many other treatments that compassionate hospice caregivers can provide! Not sure

Hospice care provides compassionate treatment and support for terminally ill patients and their families. However, many people do not understand what’s involved, or even how care is provided. That’s natural – most people don’t give much thought to hospice care until it’s needed, and by then it’s often too late to really build a firm

Often, the hardest decision involving end-of-life care is the decision to begin hospice. However, many other decisions will play a role in the process, many of which will have a direct impact on a patient’s life. Some of these decisions are seemingly minor but can have profound repercussions. Others are weighty choices that require deliberation

Post Update: Thursday, March 7, 2024 Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the end of their life. It’s something that we put off for another day. It’s years away, right? That’s true until it isn’t. Time has a way of slipping past us. Before we realize it, we no longer have

Post Update: Tuesday, May 31, 2022 We tend to shy away from thinking about our inevitable end. While that’s natural, it’s unfortunate, as our resistance to thinking about death often means that end-of-life planning doesn’t occur. This can be terrible, particularly for terminally ill patients. Instead, patients, their family members, and their caregivers need to

Post Update: Sunday, January 09, 2022 Many of us struggle with the decision to begin hospice care. Our natural hesitance to recognize the impending end of life is one of the reasons for that. However, many other factors can make us hesitate. One of those is finance-related. Who pays for hospice care? That’s a natural

The decision to enter hospice care is rarely an easy one to make. That applies to family members as much as it does to the patient themselves. Often, the family will have a mixture of responsibilities and duties that combine the roles of traditional caregiver with loving child or grandchild. It can be more than