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We provide a full range of home healthcare support to people who want to live independently, manage their health, or receive Hospice care.
Hospice care supports patients and their families physically and emotionally through the dying phase. In many countries a substantial portion of specialised end-of-life care is provided through hospices. Such care has developed outside of general healthcare and is commonly provided in a patient's ...
If you or a loved one is facing a terminal condition, hospice may be the answer. Hospice care is a unique, holistic benefit that can help people have a dignified death at home, surrounded by those they love. While fully covered by Medicare, many Americans don’t take full advantage of ...
Hospice at home: optimising care and enabling home death. BMJ Support Palliat Care 2014;4(Suppl 1):A44.2-A44.Buck J, Moth L, Webb L, Morgan L, Morris Z, Lay M, Barclay S. Hospice at Home Optimising care and enabling home death. BMJ Supportive Palliative Care 2014;4(Suppl1):A1-...
Hospice care is an affirmation of life that focuses on comfort, pain-free care when a loved one is faced with a terminal illness. Meet the AT Home Care & Hospice team and see what services are available to you and your family.
Dr. Steven Kanner, a VITAS hospice physician, might see seven to 10 patients on a typical day. He generally has about 60 patients under his care and visits patients on a monthly basis unless they are on continuous care, in which case he sees them more often. “My job is to make the...
The first and most difficult decision when a loved one needs long-term care is whether to arrange for care to be provided to the person in their home or to relocate the person to receive care at a facility. The day will come when you find that a loved one – a spouse, partner, rela...
With offices in Plymouth & Bay City, MI, we provide medical home care (nursing, therapy) and non-medical home care (personal care, companionship).
Use of hospice has exploded over the past decades with approximately half of those who die while enrolled in Medicare receiving hospice care. A new study from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute compares the quality of hospice services provided for patients...