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Pathways Hospice Services |
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What is hospice care?The word hospice was originally used to describe a place of refuge for people on a difficult journey. Its meaning is not that different today, describing a place of care for patients journeying through the later stages of life. Hospice care is designed to bring comfort and support to patients, families and friends. Many consider hospice care the defining model of compassionate care for people facing a life-limiting illness or injury, when curative treatments bring extreme side effects or are not effective. Hospice focuses on comfort, not curing, and in most cases care is provided in the patient's home. Hospice care is also provided in hospice care centers, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and other long-term care facilities. Hospice care involves a team approach to providing comfort, expert medical attention, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support tailored to patients’ needs and wishes. At the center of the hospice care philosophy is the belief that each of us has the right to be pain-free and to live and die with dignity. The philosophy also holds that our families and friends are integral to enabling this to happen. Hospice care is about choice—what kind of care you would like, where you would like to live during that care, and who you would like to care for you. Choice also means that you can choose hospice care now and then explore other options if circumstances change, or vice versa. At Pathways Hospice we want you to have the options and resources to live every moment to the fullest and in the way that you would like. Pathways Hospice offers hospice services to patients of any age, religion, race, belief, illness or insurance or financial status. Most private insurance plans cover hospice care, as do Medicare and Medicaid. |
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