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What is Hospice and Palliative Care?
Hospice Care represents a compassionate approach to end-of-life care, enhancing the quality of remaining life and enabling you to live as fully and as comfortably as possible.
Hospice is a specialized type of care for people whose life expectancy is six months or less, and involves palliative care (pain and symptom relief) rather than ongoing curative measures, enabling you to live your last days to the fullest, with purpose, dignity, grace, and support.
While hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care facilities provide hospice care onsite, hospice may also be provided in the patient's own home. This enables you to spend your final days in a familiar, comfortable environment, surrounded by your loved ones who can focus more fully on you with the support of hospice staff.
While hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care facilities provide hospice care onsite, hospice may also be provided in the patient's own home. This enables you to spend your final days in a familiar, comfortable environment, surrounded by your loved ones who can focus more fully on you with the support of hospice staff.
Harborside Hospice's care is a specialized care, designed to provide support to you and your loved ones during an advanced illness.
Our Commitment to You
We will LISTEN to you, your loved ones and caregivers to ensure that we are doing the very best to fulfill your end of life wishes.
We will CARE about you, your loved ones and caregivers as we work together as a compassionate team supporting the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of those in our care.
We will RESPECT you, your loved ones and caregivers by providing care with a focus on DIGNITY and PRIVACY.
The Harborside Hospice team is here for you. We have a personal approach to care because you are important to us.
We are here to help you find comfort and hope in each day of the journey.
We will CARE about you, your loved ones and caregivers as we work together as a compassionate team supporting the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of those in our care.
We will RESPECT you, your loved ones and caregivers by providing care with a focus on DIGNITY and PRIVACY.
The Harborside Hospice team is here for you. We have a personal approach to care because you are important to us.
We are here to help you find comfort and hope in each day of the journey.
Team Approach to Care
The hospice team develops a care plan that meets each patient's individual needs for pain management and symptom control.
The team usually consists of:
- The person receiving the care
- The person's family/caregiver
- The person's personal physician and/or hospice physician (or Medical Director)
- Nurses
- Hospice Aides
- Social Workers
- Chaplain
- Bereavement Coordinator
- Volunteer Coordinator
- Trained Volunteers
- Other professionals, such as speech, physical, and occupational therapists, as needed.
Hospice care focuses on comfort and quality of life, rather than cure.
The goal of hospice care is to enable you to have an alert, pain-free life...to live each day as fully as possible.
The goal of hospice care is to enable you to have an alert, pain-free life...to live each day as fully as possible.