hospice care

Most of the time, hospice care is provided in your home.

Pain management and hospice care are better than ever before.

Patients in hospice care usually die at home with their families.

He was receiving hospice care at the time of his death.

In 2005 more than 1.2 million individuals and their families received hospice care.

For many, hospice care is not seen as the true practice of medicine.

Less than 20 percent of the dying people in this country use hospice care.

Hospice care is usually given at home or in the facility where you live.

His death was not unexpected, as he had been in hospice care for three weeks.

He or she will be the one to refer you for hospice care.

Hospice care is usually meant for patients who are not expected to live longer than six months.

There are several reasons that more patients do not go into hospice care earlier.

In some of these cases, Medicare might not cover hospice care costs.

At present, only about 1.6 percent of Medicare benefits pay for hospice care.

But they say people often enter hospice care too late to take full advantage of it, sometimes just days, even hours, before death.

If your illness gets better, you can stop receiving hospice care.

But I too nursed my wife while she was in home hospice care last summer.

She had transferred to hospice care a week before the explosion.

The focus of hospice care is to make the woman comfortable and help with arrangements for the future.

"Most people do not know about the option of hospice care.

He had been under hospice care for some time.

She said he had recently been under hospice care.

Patients and families considering hospice care should ask which services a specific program provides.

Choosing hospice care does not mean patients lose the services of their personal doctors.

This is not only a problem for those involved in palliative and hospice care.