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Does Medicare Cover Hospice? Exploring Your Options

The decision to seek hospice care is a difficult one, but it can provide the best quality of life for those facing terminal life-limiting illnesses. In hospice, the focus shifts from providing curative treatment to delivering comfort and compassionate, supportive care. Medicare offers hospice benefits to plan holders to help them receive these services.

Understanding Patient Rights to Choose a Hospice Provider

One of the foundational rights of patients is the ability to choose their healthcare provider, including hospice services. As a patient, you have the right to select a hospice provider that meets your needs and preferences.

What Determines When a Person Goes on Hospice?

When is it time to start having a conversation about hospice? It's a question that thousands of families around the country are struggling with. Here's a look at the factors that help to determine when a person goes on hospice.

Understanding the Differences Between Hospice and Palliative Care

When it comes to caring for patients with serious illness, two terms often arise: hospice and palliative care. While they are closely related and sometimes mistakenly used interchangeably, they have distinct differences that can significantly impact the care a patient receives.

Understanding Anticipatory Grief: Navigating Emotions in Hospice Care

Anticipatory grief is a painful, deep sadness that occurs before an unavoidable loss. Anticipatory grief is helpful in that it can help you prepare for a loss. It can help you navigate the grieving process. However, anticipatory grief can lead to a condition known as prolonged grief disorder (PGD).

When Is Hospice the Right Choice With Pancreatic Cancer?

Are you struggling with questions over when to enter hospice for pancreatic cancer? Like every decision that comes following a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, this one must be made with the best interest of the patient in mind.

Hospice Vs. Palliative Care: What’s the Difference?

If you or a loved one is facing life after a serious diagnosis like ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) or stage 4 cancer, you might have come across information about both palliative care and hospice.

How Jimmy Carter Is Changing the Conversation Surrounding Hospice Care

As former President Jimmy Carter passes the one-year mark in hospice care, his very public stay is changing the way people think about this often misunderstood yet highly beneficial service.

Do You Know Safety?

Did you know that many falls in the home can be preventable? Often, when a loved one or hospice patient falls it can be unrecoverable, but in truth it could have been avoided. We encourage you to keep reading to learn tips on how you can keep your loved one safe at home.

HEART HEALTH: DID YOU KNOW?

Did you know there are a few things we can do to help our heart? The heart is an important organ within our bodies. We have the duty to ensure we keep our heart healthy so it can provide our other organs with the blood and oxygen we need. Read on for some helpful tips to keeping your heart healthy and working for you.

🤷 Do I really NEED an ADVANCE DIRECTIVE? 🤷

Only you can be the judge of that. We invite you to continue reading as we provide the necessary information for you to make an informed decision.

Coping With Grief During the Holidays

The holiday season can be a challenging and difficult time for those who have lost a loved one. The memories and traditions associated with the holidays can intensify feelings of sadness, loneliness, and grief. Coping with the loss of a loved one during the holidays can be especially difficult, but there are some things you can do to help ease the pain.

Alzheimer’s Awareness Month

November is Alzheimer’s awareness month, with purple being the official color of the movement. Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia.

Cycle of Giving: Hospice Volunteering

The end of life is a natural process that is both beautiful and spiritual. It is a time when we reflect on the life we have lived and the impact we have had on others.

Emergency/Disaster Preparedness Tips from Transitions Hospice Care

Tips to help prepare our patients & their families, our staff & their families, our neighbors, & community... know your risks, make a plan, & take action.

The Importance of Hospice

Why is hospice so important? Our lives are categorized by milestones, birth, graduation, college, getting married, children, jobs, retirement, etc. But what about end of life? Death? It is just as important as all the above. The dying process can be smooth or rocky. Hospice’s goal is to make that journey as smooth as possible.

Spiritual Care in Hospice: Nurturing Meaning, Connection, and Peace

Spiritual care for hospice patients recognizes and addresses the spiritual and existential needs of individuals who are facing the end of life. It encompasses providing support, comfort, and guidance to patients in exploring and finding meaning, purpose, and connection during this challenging time.

How to Choose the Right Hospice Care Provider for Your Loved One

Caring for a loved one during their final days is a deeply emotional and challenging experience. It is a time when you want to ensure that they receive the best possible care and support. This is where hospice care can make a real difference.

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