Hospice care is end-of-life care. A team of health care professionals and volunteers provides it. They give medical, psychological, and spiritual support. The goal of the care is to help people who are dying have peace, comfort, and dignity.
To help families, hospice care also provides counseling, respite care and practical support.
Unlike other traditional medical care modalities, the focus of hospice care isn’t to cure disease. The of hospice care is to support the highest quality of life possible for the individual.
Many people who receive hospice care have cancer, while others have heart disease, dementia, kidney failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Research and broadly reported personal experience suggests enrolling in hospice care early helps patients live better and live longer.
Hospice care can ease some of the burden put on family, and caregivers and may decreases the family’s likelihood of having complicated grief while preparing the loved ones and family members for their loved one’s death.