Hospice Care

Hospice Care. Public hospice explainer brochure.

Key findings used in wiki

• Hospice focuses on comfort, pain relief, and support services when a person is expected to live six months or less.
• Hospice can be provided in the home, nursing homes, assisted living, hospitals, hospice centers, or other residential settings.
• Typical hospice support includes symptom management, nursing, medicines related to the terminal condition, equipment, social work, spiritual care, respite, and grief support for family.
• The public-support case for earlier hospice discussion is that many families who use hospice later wish they had asked about it sooner.