Grattan Gill of Sandwich is the architect. She said Hospice officials hope someone comes forward with a donation of land where Hospice can build on the Lower Cape. Hospice House in Barnstable opened in 1993 in a renovated house on Railroad Avenue. Hospice workers also provide services to patients in private homes, nursing homes and hospitals. We can frequently keep people in their own homes with the support we provide.
Hospice provides personal care attendants, nurses, spiritual care and volunteer visitors.
Strengths of the Hospice program include symptom management and pain relief, Hannus said. Hospice is for people in the end stages of chronic illness or a cancer diagnosis. Usually the life expectancy is six months or less, Hannus said. Hospice patients have included people suffering from Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's, cardiac and arterial diseases. A new service, the Center for Life Care Planning and Support, brings a Hospice team together with a patient's doctor and family to look at what needs to be done to make the patient's final days comfortable.