Hospice Care brings compassion, care and support to individuals and their families transitioning through life-limiting illness while providing outreach, education and expertise in grief support to the entire community.Hospice is a philosophy of care. The hospice philosophy or viewpoint accepts death as the final stage of life. The goal of hospice is to enable patients to continue an alert, pain-free life and to manage other symptoms so that their last days may be spent with dignity and quality, surrounded by their loved ones.Hospice care is suitable when you no longer benefit from treatments and you expected help to relieve terminal illness related symptoms, but not cure the disease; its main purpose is to improve your quality of life.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.

 In a hospice, terminally ill patients are cared for in recognition that it is the last stage that they will live.  The goal is to make sure that the quality of the patient’s life is as high and comfortable as possible.

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