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What is a Hospice?
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Hospice is a program of care and support for people who are terminally ill. Hospice care is for people with a life expectancy of 6 months or less if the disease runs its normal course. If you live longer than 6 months, you can still get hospice care, as long as the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor recertifies that you’re terminally ill (with a life expectancy of 6 months or less).
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Important: Hospice care is given in benefit periods. You can get hospice care for two 90-day periods followed by an unlimited number of 60-day periods. At the start of each period, the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor must recertify that you’re terminally ill (with a life expectancy of 6 months or less), so you can continue to get hospice care. A benefit period starts the day you begin to get hospice care and it ends when your 90-day or 60-day period ends.
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Some Important Facts About Hospice:
â– Hospice helps people who are terminally ill live comfortably.
â– Hospice isn’t only for people with cancer.
â– The focus is on comfort, not on curing an illness.
â– A specially trained team of professionals and caregivers provide care for the “whole person,” including physical, emotional,
social, and spiritual needs.
â– Services typically include physical care, counseling, drugs, equipment, and supplies for the terminal illness and related conditions.
â– Care is generally provided in the home.
â– Family caregivers can get support.
You and your family members are the most important part of a team that may also include doctors, nurses or nurses practitioners, chaplains, social workers , hospice aides and volunteers. In addition, a hospice nurse and doctor are on-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to give you and your family support and care when you need it. You can also choose to include your regular doctor or a nurse practitioner on your medical team as the attending medical professional who will supervise your care.