Hospice Care - What really happens and what can you expect with hospice?

What to expect from hospice care? In this video we want to help walk you through what is involved with hospice care. Who can make a referral? What happens during the initial meeting and how is a patient's care determined? What kinds of medication and equipment are provided? Whether choosing hospice is a permanent decision? We'll answer all these questions.

00:00 Intro
01:48 Who makes a referral for hospice care?
02:58 What happens during the initial meeting with a hospice provider?
03:29 What is the role of the Plan of Care?
04:23 Who provides medications and equipment?
04:48 Is choosing hospice a permanent decision?
05:21 What happens during the final days at home?

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[sheilariley]

My fiance was under hospice for 2 days. They were wonderful to us. He wasnt expected to die so quick. Heart just gave out. They are the best! They are helping me navigate the greiving process. Reccommend them to everyone

[annfieger]

Thank you for that information. I am terminal & I thought Hospice was for the end of life. Now I realize it's better to have it before the end.

[vickiephelps]

As a patient who has been in hospice care and palliative care, this video doesn't inform anyone of anything other than we can get pain meds. That is all I get from my current palliative care. As far as I can tell the only difference is that on hospice a nurse came to me instead of me going to the office every 45 to 60 days. In neither case does anyone listen to my concerns(other than pain control.) I am not impressed at all.

[alissaburge]

Some cancer patients are lucky to be cancer free and out of hospice and palliative for their loved ones and my caregiver Fernanda had her mother Edna Smith had passed away from cancer and she’s not in pain anymore nearly two years ago. The hospice nurses gave her morphine to help her not to suffer anymore with stage 4 cancer and she passed on September 9th 2021. She is from Recife, Brazil. She had lost mother nearly two years ago of cancer and she cried about her mother goes to the Mormon church for a long time and she was Mormon for a log from Brazil.