Hospice care is care that is provided to someone who is approaching death. There are a lot of misconceptions about hospice care, and hopefully this blog post can clear some of those. Ultimately, hospice care is about making someone … [Read more...]
How Hospice Can Enhance Quality of Life
Hospice care is commonly known as professional end of life care. It is designed to help make someone comfortable during a very difficult period. With end of life care comes a lot of preconceived notions. Many people have a bias … [Read more...]
Getting the Most Out of Hospice Care
Hospice care has been covered as a part of Medicare for many years, but when it comes down to it, not many people view hospice as something that actually improves the quality of life that a dying loved one experiences during their final … [Read more...]
Hospice and End of Life Care
According to a study conducted by Duke University, the United States ranked #43 out of 81 countries when it comes to the quality of the end of life care that is provided through the hospice system. Why is this? One … [Read more...]
Alternatives to the Nursing Home
There are a lot of different alternatives to the nursing home, but many people give the bulk of their attention to nursing homes. This is how it has been for quite a while. Nursing homes have the potential to do a lot of good as they … [Read more...]
Senior Care and Cancer
Fighting cancer is never easy. The older someone becomes, the more difficult fighting cancer gets. Not only does age tend to compromise someone’s immune system and overall health, it also makes people more likely to suffer from other … [Read more...]
Hospice and Other Treatments Attempt to Fill Gaps in Care
Alternative and complementary medical treatments have gained a lot of media time over the last few years. This type of help isn’t always looked nicely upon, but the fact is that these have become very popular because they fulfill a need … [Read more...]
End of Life Care More Intensive than Thought
Yesterday, we talked a bit about statistics, and how they rarely provide any sort of personalized guidance when it comes to deciding what is the best course of action for a loved one’s senior care. Today, we’re going to look at a more … [Read more...]
Mixed Opinions Exist on Senior Care
In 2013, a study was released that looked at end of life decisions. There was a simple question on this survey, asking respondents which they agreed with. They were asked to select one of the following choices: “Doctors and nurses should do … [Read more...]
Palliative Care is More than Just Hospice
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine published a study not too long ago that stresses the importance of palliative care. In this study, the authors claimed that palliative care does a good deal toward helping to improve the … [Read more...]
Thing to Know About Hospice Care
This is the fourth installment of our “Things to Know” series, and in this one, we will be discussing the things that you should know about hospice care before you sign up to use those services for a loved one. Like all other types of … [Read more...]
The Case for Palliative Care
Palliative care serves a very specific purpose: it is meant to provide comfort. Usually, palliative care is provided in a hospice setting, where the comfort is given as a type of end of life care. Because of this association, many people … [Read more...]
