Hospice is about living every moment fully. Hospice care is comprehensive comfort care that is uniquely designed with each patients individual needs in mind in order to provide reduction of pain and other symptoms that can reduce quality of life. Both the patient and family are included in the plan of care. Physical, emotional, and spiritual support is provided based on the patient's individual wishes and family's unique needs. Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death.
Hospice affirms life and regards dying as a normal, natural process.
Under the direction of a physician, hospice uses sophisticated methods of pain and symptom control that enable the patient to live as fully and comfortably as possible. Hospice treats the person, not the disease. The interdisciplinary hospice team is made up of professionals who can address the medical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs of the patients and their loved ones. Hospice emphasizes quality, rather than length, of life. The hospice movement stresses human values that go beyond the physical needs of the patient.