November is National Home Care & Hospice Month, making this month a good time to learn more about what hospice services can do for your senior as she nears the end of her life. There’s also a lot that hospice programs can do for your entire family.
Offer Help Managing Symptoms and Comfort
Hospice care providers are able to focus on your senior’s comfort at this stage of her life. That means that they’ve got access to plans and techniques that assist them in managing your elderly family member’s symptoms. Every person’s situation is different, and the care that your senior receives is personalized to her needs as those needs change. That takes a lot of the guesswork out of things for you and for other family members, giving you the chance to simply be with your senior.
Maximizing Quality of Life
Your senior’s quality of life is never more crucial than when she’s nearing the end of her life. Hospice elder care is able to help you to discover what your elderly family member most needs right now. If that’s additional help from her medical providers or something that you and other family members can do for her now, that’s all important to know so that those changes can be put into place.
Assisting with Bereavement and Counseling Services
This is a difficult time for everyone who cares about your aging family member. It helps to have access to counseling assistance, particularly experts who are experienced with bereavement. There’s something called anticipatory grief, and these experts can help you and your family members to manage it now as well as after your family member passes away.
Helping Keep Everyone on the Same Page
Hospice care is also incredibly important for keeping you and your senior’s medical providers all on the same page. It can be tough to balance everything that you’re managing, especially if her health is changing rapidly. Having someone in your corner who can communicate with her doctors can free up your time and energy to spend as much of both on your senior as possible.
This can be such a difficult time for everyone who loves your senior. Loss is terrible to manage. That’s why it is so vital to have as many tools as possible in your arsenal to make things easier whenever for everyone involved you can, and hospice programs allow you to do just that.
If you or an aging loved-one is considering Hospice Care in Gainesville, TX please contact the caring staff at Arcy Healthcare today. 469-293-1515
My name is Jimmie Stapleton. I am the founder and CEO of Arcy Healthcare. Arcy Healthcare includes Arcy Hospice, Arcy Supportive Care, MaximaCare Home Health and Arcy at Home.
Arcy Hospice was opened in 2007 to provide care and support for individuals and families facing a life limiting illness. It was established after my wife Ellen, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, had completed her chemo and radiation therapies. At that time, things were looking positive, and we wanted to do something for our community that had been so supportive of our family during her treatments. Unfortunately, the cancer returned a few years later, and she subsequently passed away under our care in 2010.
In the years that followed, I began to see the need to provide the same level of excellent care to patients across the continuum of care. Therefore, we have added a home health division (MaximaCare Home Health), a palliative care division (Arcy Supportive Care), and a home care division, (Arcy at Home). With the addition of these divisions, we can meet most of the post-acute care needs for you and your family in your home.
I started Arcy Hospice with my wife as my motivation to provide exceptional care and support in the patient’s home, where they are surrounded by family and where they feel most comfortable. I’m proud to say that our staff provides some of the best in home care in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
Please let us know if we can enrich the quality of life for you or a loved one.
Sincerely,
Jimmie Stapleton – Founder and CEO
Arcy Healthcare
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