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Hospice Care co-ordination
- Often, we hear queries on whether Palliative & Hospice Care are same. At Excellentiam, we have team of caregivers to support both the needs, as they are not identically same. Before we understand the support needed for Hospice Care, let us fist go through the basic difference between Hospice & Palliative Care.
Let Us Discuss About Hospice Care
Does hospice care same as palliative care?
Hospice is comfort care without curative intent; the patient no longer has curative options or has chosen not to pursue treatment because the side effects outweigh the benefits.
Palliative care is comfort care with or without curative intent.
Family meetings
Regularly scheduled meetings, often led by the Team Excellentiam caregiver, keep family members informed about your condition and what to expect. These meetings also give happy feeling to the patient, to be surrounded by loved ones
Home & inpatient Care
Although most hospice care is centred in the home, there might be times when you need to be in a hospital, extended-care facility, or an inpatient hospice centre. TeamExcellentiam can arrange for inpatient care and will stay involved in your care and with your family. You can go back to in-home care when you and your family are ready.
When should hospice care start?
Hospice care is used when a disease, such as advanced cancer, gets to the point when treatment can no longer cure or control it. In general, hospice care should be used when a person is expected to live about 6 months or less if the illness runs its usual course.
Studies show hospice care often is not started soon enough. Sometimes the doctor, patient, or family member will resist hospice because they think it means “giving up” or that there’s no hope. It’s important to know that you can leave hospice and go into active cancer treatment any time you want.
What does hospice care provide?
At Excellentiam, we provide certain services towards Hospice Care with specific tailored approaches to service, staffing patterns, and types of support services offered.
At Excellentiam Hospice Care includes, Home care & inpatient hospice care, Family meetings, Coordination of care.
Coordination of care
Team Excellentiam coordinates and supervises all care 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Our team is responsible for making sure that all involved services share information. The domestic helps or caregivers are encouraged to contact Team Excellentiam Hospice Care, if they are having a problem, any time of the day or night. There’s always someone on call to help you with whatever may arise. Excellentiam Hospice Care assures you and your family that you are not alone and can get help at any time.
How they are different
- When care is given:
- Hospice care is offered and provided for patients during their last phase of an incurable illness or near the end of life, such as in some people with advanced or metastatic cancer.
- Palliative care can be offered and provided at any stage of a serious illness.
- What other care can be given:
- Hospice care is provided when there is no active or curative treatment being given for the serious illness. “Treatment” during hospice care involves managing symptoms and side effects.
- Palliative care can be provided while the patient is receiving active treatment. In other words, it can be given at the same time as chemo, radiation, or immunotherapy for cancer
Team Excellentiam provides compassionate Hospice care, whichfocuses on the quality of life for people who are experiencing an advanced, life-limiting illness, as their caregivers. This helps people in the last phases of incurable disease so that they may live as fully and comfortably as possible.
