Hospice services from Country Care Hospice, Inc.
Our hospice care services are for adult patients with a wide range of life-limiting illnesses, including cancer, stroke, heart disease, lung disease, liver disease, kidney disease, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Alzheimer’s, and AIDS.
Hospice Home Care
Country Care Hospice, Inc. can bring hospice services to you or your loved one, in the place that’s the most comfortable home. And we’re experts at managing the transition from hospital to your home, from curative to palliative care.
Palliative care
Palliative care has been a board-certified medical specialty since 2006 in the US, but palliative care has been around for centuries. We’ve all had palliative medicine, also called comfort care. If you break a bone, you seek a cure: the doctor sets it and keeps it immobile in order for it to heal. But she prescribes painkillers to make you comfortable. The painkillers are palliative, they improve the quality of your life while you and your physician cope with your broken bone.
Generally, when we talk about palliative care, it’s in the context of serious illness: chronic, progressive pulmonary disorders; renal disease; chronic heart failure; HIV/AIDS, progressive neurological conditions, cancer, etc.
Hospice service
Hospice is the term for a special program of care for terminally ill (dying) patients and their families. Rather than trying to cure an illness, hospice efforts aim to make the patient comfortable, ease pain and other troublesome symptoms and support the family through a sad and difficult time.
Nursing care
Medical social services
- Assessing social and emotional factors
- Advanced care planning
- Community resource planning
- Advanced directives
- Crisis intervention
- Counseling
- Teaching regarding coping with loss and change