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Hospice is a choice
Hospice care is a choice you make to enhance life for a dying person. A
person with a terminal disease may choose to die at home with the support
of family, friends, and caring professionals. Hospice care emphasizes
comfort measures and counseling to provide social, spiritual and physical
support to the dying patient and his or her family. All hospice care is
under professional medical supervision. Over 90% of hospice care is
provided in the patient's home. Traditional care emphasizes the use of
medical interventions, hospitalization and drugs to cure or control
disease. Traditional care may involve aggressive and expensive high-tech
medicine. The traditional approach is appropriate, when cure is possible.
The traditional approach may also be the appropriate choice, when cure is
not possible. However, it is not the only choice.
Hospice provides
relief from pain
The physical pain arising from a terminal illness may be debilitating,
frightening and dehumanizing. Hospice providers have the skills and
resources to permit persons to live as pain-free, as comfortable, and as
full a life as possible.
Hospice provides support
In addition to providing for the physical comfort of the dying person,
hospice provides social and spiritual support for the patient and his or
her family. This support takes the form of time-off for the primary
caregiver, personal care, nutritional counseling, pastoral counseling,
grief counseling, and help with legal and funeral arrangements.
Hospice is
chosen by hundreds of thousands. In 1994 over 300,000 persons chose
hospice care in the United States. This is more than twice as many as in
1985. Over 90% of hospice care is provided in the patients home.
Hospice
of Pasadena
Hospice volunteers make home visits, run errands and act as advocates for
the terminally ill and seriously ill patient and family at no charge.
Low-cost psychological counseling.
(626) 397-3600
100 W. California Blvd.
Pasadena, Ca. 91105
VITAS Innovative Hospice Care
VITAS is a company
defined by the needs of the patients and families we serve. When we were
founded in 1978, our first patient, Emmy Philhour, made this offer:
“Help me stay at home, and I’ll teach you how to care for me." Emmy
taught us much, and her teaching still guides us today. Since caring for
Emmy, each of the hundreds of thousands of patients and families we’ve
served have taught us how to do a better job. With our roots as a leader
in the hospice movement in the United States, we will continue to evolve
and to meet the changing needs of those with life-limiting illnesses and
their families, guided, as always, by our VITAS Values:
For more
information call (800) 938-4827.
Los Angeles Funeral Society
The non-profit, no
pressure alternative sine 1957. Dedicated to
simplicity, dignity, and economy if funeral and memorial arrangements.
(626) 683-3545 |
