This good natured effort is meant to encourage smokers to give up cigarettes for 24 hours in the hope they will then take steps to quit for good. The goal of hospice care is to enable people in the final phase of terminal illness to live the remainder of their lives with dignity. Hospice care is usually delivered at home, or in a home-like stetting. The emphasis is on quality of life, not length, so people can live out their lives alert and pain-free. November is dedicated as National Hospice Month.
Hospice care involves an interdisciplinary team of medical, social and spiritual professionals.
It is covered by Medicare, Medicaid and most private insurance programs. Regular television viewers could be excused if they believe urinary incontinence is only a problem for the elderly. In fact, millions of Americans of all ages can be affected by urinary tract disorders. Bladder Health Week, sponsored by the American Foundation for Urologic Diseases , beginning November 14, is dedicated to raising the public awareness of the problem. The message is that bladder and urinary conditions are more common that generally believed, but also that many effective treatments are available.