I am french and been here 2 years and keep hearing the word HOSPICE. Can anyone tell me whats a hospice?

Question

how would i know a catercory?

Answer 1

It is a place where terminally ill people go to die.

Answer 2

Hospice is a service provided to patients who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness with a prognosis of six months or less to live. Hospice services are rendered by a team which includes doctors, nurses, nurse assistants, chaplains and social workers. The focus of care is comfort rather than cure. The service is provided wherever the patient is, whether it's the home, assisted living facility, skilled nursing facility, hospital, or the hospice's own facility. The primary ethic of hospice is autonomy, meaning the patient is in control, not the doctor. The hospice team helps to meet the patient's and the patient's family's medical, spiritual, emotional and practical needs. I am a hospice nurse and I just got home from an emergency visit where a patient was having pain. The patient was pain free and sleeping like a baby when I left. I wouldn't trade my job for anything.

Answer 3

I would be happy to explain hospice. I'm a writer for Gilbert Guide, and have done several articles on the topic. Here's a brief explanation:

Hospice provides for patients who can no longer benefit from regular medical treatment, per a doctor’s determination, and are in the last stages of a terminal illness.

The goal of hospice care is to keep the pain and suffering of a person with a terminal diagnosis to a minimum, and not to cure the illness. Provided in the patient’s home or in hospice centers, hospitals, skilled nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, hospice is based on the belief that every person has the right to die pain-free and with dignity, and with family and friends nearby.

If you want to read more about hospice, check out www.gilbertguide.com/blog/.

Cheers,

Ami

Answer 4

A hospice is a hospital in which most of the patients are dying of terminal cancers. The hospices in the UK are usually run as charities, with no support from government. Some are run on a religious theme, and others are run with the help of trained nurses and doctors.
Apart from care at home through say the Macmillan nurse association, the UK hospice is one of the few charitable 'care centres' for the terminally ill.
We in the UK regard the hospice organisation as next to a 'modern day miracle', providing a place for people to die with dignity.

Answer 5

The first hospice in the United States was established in 1974. Relatively generous Medicare reimbursement for hospice treatment has greatly increased hospice usage in the United States. There are now roughly 4,100 hospice services in operation in the United States (NHPCO). The first United States hospital-based palliative care programs began in 1989, at the Cleveland Clinic, in response to the recognition that restrictions on hospice eligibility imposed by the Medicare Hospice Benefit prevented adequate care for seriously ill and dying patients in acute care hospitals. In response, there has been a dramatic increase in hospital-based palliative care programs, now numbering more than 1200 (www.capc.org).

In the US, palliative care services can be offered to any patient with no restrictions on disease type or expected prognosis. However, hospice care under the Medicare Hospice Benefit, requires that two physicians certify that a patient has less than six months to live, if the disease follows its usual course. This does not mean, however, that if a patient is still living after six months in hospice, he or she will be discharged from the service. Such restrictions do not exist in other countries such as the UK.

Caregivers, both family and volunteers, are crucial to the palliative care system. Because of the amount of individual contact, caregivers and patients often form lasting friendships yet consequently, caregivers may find themselves under severe emotional and physical strain. Opportunities for caregiver respite are some of the services hospices provide to promote caregiver well being. Respite may be for several hours or up to several days (the latter being done usually by placing the patient in a nursing home or in-patient hospice unit for several days).

Hospice care can be given at the patients home and there are also Hospice facilities that patients can move in to. In a nut shell, Hospice provides nursing care, home care, counseling for families and patients who have a terminal illness and life expectancy of less than 6 months.

Answer 6

A Hospice is a place where people who are terminally ill go to spend their remaining days. Having had a family member die in a hospice I know that they receive every care and attention possible.

Answer 7

Hospice's are a place for the terminally ill to go. These are usually places where people will need a lot of medical care. I volunteer at a hospice in town - most of the people there are, as one resident put it to me, "ready to play the last game of checkers and the next is reserved for the Lord." He will be passing away soon, but I hope to bring a little sunshine in his life before he passes.

Answer 8

Just to clarify, as many people have posted incorrectly ...

Yes, a hospice is for terminally ill people to either receive medical treatment on a residential basis, or for the doctors to visit them at home.

It is NOT a facility for people to go to to die in. Many people have still got a fair while to go, but are admitted for a short period of time to give their carers some respite. On the other hand, if a patient has been in the hospice for awhile and it is then known that they have got literally hours or a day to go, they will return home as many people prefer to die in their own homes.

My mother is the manager of a hospice, and in her particular one, only 4% of patients actually die there. The remaining 96% die either at home or in a hospital.

Mind you, I have often wondered if they fiddle the statistics a bit ... you know, like how they say that nobody ever dies at Disney World but the reality is that people do die, they just don't declare them officially dead until they are off Disney property so that they can say that no-one dies there.

Answer 9

A Hospice is a type of hospital where terminally ill people go to die with full care

Answer 10

A Hospice is medical care where the Nurses go out to the Disabled or Old People that are not able to go or actually be sick enough to go to the Dr. or Hospital for care, it is home-based medical care, sometimes on a daily basis.

Answer 11

A hospice is a hospital for terminally ill patients