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How Hospice Can Help: Services and Support
Hospice provides emotional, physical and spiritual support and services for patients, family and friends faced with a life-limiting illness. Hospice services most often enable a patient to be at home or in an inpatient facility surrounded by family and friends. With the primary focus being to control the pain and manage the symptoms, Hospice services may include anything from providing medical services and equipment to transportation, daily activity assistance, speech or occupational therapy, dietary counseling, emotional support bereavement counseling and many others as needed by patient and family.
Hospice offers complete service, resources and support including:
- 24-hour/7-day on-call assistance
- Skilled nursing care
- Pain management
- Symptom control
- Medical supplies
- Medical social services
- Caregiver respite
- Homemaker assistance
- In-home care
- Inpatient facility care
- Spiritual support
- Counseling, including dietary
- Physical, occupational, respiratory and speech therapy
- Bereavement services
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