Hospice care refers to providing medical services, emotional and moral support and spiritual resources to people who are in the last stages of a terminal illness such as cancer or heart failure. It is also about helping family members manage practical details and the emotional challenges of caring for a loved one. It makes those affected comfortable and improves their quality of life while dying. It is a shift from the usual medical treatments, which concentrates on only healing the disease.More...
Inpatient care refers to short-term, general inpatient care. This may be provided either through a contract management with an appropriately licensed and Medicare certified hospital, or a long term care facility, or directly by a hospice program in its inpatient facility. The objective is to provide pain control and symptom management that cannot be accomplished in another setting. The location may be a patient’s residence or a nursing home or even a group home.More...
The hospice is about care received in the final stages of life when one is stricken with a terminal illness. It is a philosophy emphasizing care for the terminally ill rather than curing them. Hospice care for liver cancer is given when the patient no longer responds to treatment and has a life expectancy of six months or less. The hospice pays particular attention to the quality of life of the terminally ill.More...