Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Nursing Homes- Hospice care versus Palliative care.


Hospice care is a term used for special care programme for terminally dying patients and their families. There are basically two types of care services existing right now. One is palliative care and second is hospice care. In hospice care it would be the main aim to make the make the patient life comfortable so medical experts try to ease up the pain of a patient so that he can get some relief. Besides of all this required emotional support is also provided to patient’s family through this difficult time. Hospice care services are provided to patient at that place where he is living currently. It may be his home, or any nursing home or a care home. Hospice and palliative care can be also given in nursing homes.    

Hospice care programme will always try to provide comfort to the patients in their dying stages by adopting special and holistic approach which includes giving spiritual emotional mental and physical support not only to patients but to their families and other care givers also. Hospice care is basically contains a philosophy of care giving through which life of a patient can be improved. Reading above concepts one may get confused in that hospice accepts the death of a person and just make formal thing to make patient feel better but it’s not a fact. In fact hospice care is not all about accepting death but a point of view in philosophical way which shows that death is the final destination of life. Hospice care helps people in their final days by providing a pain free life. Hospice care no one tries to postpone the death or cure the disease.


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