What is Hospice?
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Episode 27 –
We wanted to take some time and discuss a topic that can be scary, confusing, emotional, overwhelming, and misunderstood and that’s hospice. So, today we are going to answer the question “What is Hospice?”
We will be going through the most common questions that come up when discussing hospice that we feel will help in explaining better what hospice is and help dispel some of the myths and misconceptions that families sometime have.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care, with discussions |
| 0:04.7 | on important age-related matters and topics. Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, |
| 0:10.3 | the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:24.1 | Hello and welcome back to all home care matters. |
| 0:28.5 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, thank you for taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:29.9 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each |
| 0:34.6 | episode here at all home care matters, something that will hopefully |
| 0:38.1 | matter to you. Today, we wanted to take some time and discuss a topic that can be scary, |
| 0:44.0 | overwhelming, confusing, emotional, and often misunderstood. And that's hospice. So today, we're |
| 0:51.5 | going to be answering the question, what is hospice? |
| 1:02.9 | When a family first hears the word hospice, it can conjure up many images and questions about what exactly hospice is and what it isn't. |
| 1:08.2 | And there are also myths about hospice that families sometimes wonder about if they're true or not. |
| 1:12.3 | Let's start by giving the official definition of hospice. |
| 1:19.3 | The definition of hospice, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is a program designed to provide palliative care and emotional support to the terminally ill in a home or home-like |
| 1:24.7 | setting so that the quality of life is maintained and family members |
| 1:28.4 | may be active participants in the care. And it also notes a facility that provides such a program. |
| 1:36.2 | One of the most frequently asked questions that we hear is, what is hospice care? And there's |
| 1:41.2 | understandably sometimes quite a bit of confusion about what it is and what it |
| 1:45.0 | isn't, as we mentioned previously. But first and foremost, hospice is a philosophy of the type and way |
| 1:52.9 | cares to be delivered when a patient goes into their doctor or even into the hospital because |
| 1:58.1 | they have specific symptoms that are making them sick. |
| 2:05.0 | Their doctor or health care team is going to focus on the illness or the symptoms, |
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