Below are the best resources we could find on Hospice and handling a loved ones illness.
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There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine—keeping patients alive at any price. Two-thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions, tethered to machines and tubes at bankrupting costs, even though research shows that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones. Dr.
Hospice care teams provide people with comfortable care if they have a life-limiting illness.
Hospice differs from palliative care, which serves anyone who is seriously ill, not just those who are dying and no longer seeking a cure.
While the nature and timing of end-of-life care differs for each person, many families are finding that it’s best to inquire about hospice care sooner rather than later.
This article explains what hospice care is, the services it generally provides, and how to determine if seeking hospice care is appropriate for you or a loved one.
Hospice is less about what we think modern medicine should do and more about finding a small sense of serenity in one’s final moments.
Conceived as an end-of-life option for terminally ill patients, hospices provide palliative care, medications, nursing services, and counseling for those diagnosed with six months or less to live.
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“There is nothing wrong with you for dying,” hospice physician B.J. Miller and journalist and caregiver Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner’s Guide to the End. “Our ultimate purpose here isn’t so much to help you die as it is to free up as much life as possible until you do.
Studies of dying patients who seek a hastened death have shown that their reasons often go beyond physical ones like intractable pain or emotional ones like feeling hopeless.
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