Understanding Hospice, Palliative Care and End-of-life Issues
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Understanding Hospice, Understanding Hospice, Palliative Care and Palliative Care and End-of-life IssuesEnd-of-life Issues
• This presentation is intended as a template• Modify and/or delete slides as appropriate for your
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'Edit', then 'Edit slides'
Understanding Understanding Hospice, Palliative Hospice, Palliative Care andCare andEnd-of-Life IssuesEnd-of-Life Issues
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25% of deaths occur at
home - more than 80% of
Americans would prefer to
die at home
(NHPCO and National Hospice Foundation)
FactFact
HospiceHospice
• Provides support and care for those in the last phases of life-limiting illness
• Recognizes dying as part of the normal process of living
• Affirms life and neither hastens nor postpones death
• Focuses on quality of life for individuals and their family caregivers
Core Aspects of Core Aspects of HospiceHospice
• Patient/family focused • Interdisciplinary• Provides a range of services:
Interdisciplinary case management Pharmaceuticals Durable medical equipment Supplies Volunteers Grief support
Additional ServicesAdditional Services
• Hospices offer additional services, including: Hospice residential care (facility) Inpatient hospice care Palliative care Complementary therapies Specialized pediatric team Caregiver training classes
Hospice Team MembersHospice Team Members
• The patient's personal physician• Hospice physician (medical director)• Nurses• Home health aides• Social workers• Clergy or other counselors• Speech, physical, and occupational
therapists• Trained volunteers
The Hospice TeamThe Hospice Team
• Develops the plan of care • Manages pain and symptoms• Attends to the emotional, psychosocial and
spiritual aspects of dying and caregiving• Teaches the family how to provide care • Advocates for the patient and family• Provides bereavement care and counseling
Where Hospice is Where Hospice is ProvidedProvided• Home• Nursing Facility• Assisted Living Facility• Hospital• Hospice residence or unit• Prison, homeless shelter – where ever the
person is
Who Pays?Who Pays?
• Medicare • Medicaid • Insurance • Private pay• Sometimes a combination of these…
Admission Admission CriteriaCriteria
• General Life-limiting illness, prognosis is 6 months
or less if the disease takes normal course Live in service area Consent to accept services
Palliative CarePalliative Care
• Treatment that enhances comfort and improves the quality of an individual’s life during the last phase of life
• The expected outcome is relief from distressing symptoms, the easing of pain, and/or enhancing the quality of life
Curative and Palliative Curative and Palliative CareCare
• Curative care Focuses on quantity of life and prolonging of
life
• Palliative care Focuses on quality of life and death, and
views death as a natural part of life
Resources in Our Resources in Our CommunityCommunity
www.caringinfo.org • www.caringinfo.org • 800-658-8898800-658-8898
FREE Resources FREE Resources Available Available from from Caring Caring ConnectionsConnections
• More information about Hospice and Palliative Care
• State-specific advance directives• Brochures to download or order:
What is Palliative Care? Hospice Care How to Choose a Quality Hospice The Dying Process: A Guide for Family Caregivers Hospice Volunteers: Helping People LIVE
It’s About How You It’s About How You LIVE!LIVE!
LLearn about your options, choices and decisions
IImplement your advance directive plans
VVoice your decisions about hospice and palliative care
EEngage others to learn more about hospice and palliative care
