When your senior is nearing the end of her life, there are a lot of decisions that you and she have to make. One of those might be about whether it’s time for hospice care or not. Understanding hospice care and what to expect can make that decision easier.
Hospice Care Comes to You
In the past when your senior has needed medical care, she’s likely had to leave her home and go to a doctor’s office or to a hospital. If she’s grown tired of those trips and she’s decided to leave curative treatments behind, she may feel frustrated at the thought that there might not be another way. Hospice care comes to your senior, which is the perfect answer to all of the frustrations she may be experiencing.
The Hospice Nurse Helps Explain What’s Going on Medically
Your senior’s hospice care nurse is her connection to all of her doctors and medical providers. In the past it might have been confusing having to deal with a variety of doctors, especially if your senior’s health was not only getting worse but required multiple specialists. Hospice nurses are there to care for your senior and to ensure that she and you understand what’s going on with her health and how treatment plans are changing, if they are.
There May Be More Services Your Senior Needs
One of the best parts of working with hospice care is that you and your senior may be able to access additional services that help her to meet her needs. Hospice care providers have resources that can be immensely helpful, like respiratory treatments, volunteers to run errands, and even bereavement counseling to help with issues like anticipatory grief.
Services Might Change as Your Senior’s Needs Change
The services that your senior may need, or that you and other family members might need, are going to change as her health changes. Hospice care providers can help your elderly family member to anticipate the changes that she’s experiencing depending on how her health is doing. They can also help you and other family members to be prepared for what’s coming.
Dealing with end-of-life concerns is never easy for anyone involved in the situation. Your senior and your family are all facing a difficult time, no matter how well prepared you have all felt until now. Hospice care can be the key to making that time easier on all of you.
If you are or a loved one is considering hospice elder care in Marietta, GA, please call the caring staff at Arcturus Hospice and Palliative Care today. Call 678-383-9973 today to speak to our care team.
Kate Gorinshteyn is the director of marketing at Arcturus Health Care. Arcturus is a fast-growing Hospice striving to provide the highest level of quality care to patients faced with life-limiting illnesses. Our goal is to make each patient as pain-free as possible and give physiological, emotional and spiritual support to both the patient and family. We understand that the decision change from curative to comfort care is difficult, and our team is trained to help you every step of the way!
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