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Hospice care is based on the services needed by the individual. Family members are taught what they need to know in order to provide supportive care to loved ones. Hospice staff are on call 24 hours every day to answer questions and provide assistance.
Hospice arranges all of the services you need, related to the terminal illness. The Medicare hospice benefit, Medicaid and private insurance cover hospice services associated with the terminal illness. Costs not associated with the terminal illness are paid by the traditional Medicare benefit, Medicaid and private insurance. Every Florida hospice program is licensed and is Medicare and Medicaid certified.
Compassionate care provided includes medications for symptom control and pain relief, physical care, social services, bereavement counseling, spiritual care, and many other additional services.
Hospice is for every age group, including children, adults, and the elderly. Hospice responds to people's needs for comfort, empowerment, self directed care, enables staying at home if at all possible, assists with financial concerns so that impoverishment is not an added concern, and supports the patient's loved ones both during the illness and after death. The goal is to maintain the highest quality of life along with patient and family dignity to the greatest extent possible.
Hospice is a choice not a requirement. A patient may choose to withdraw from the hospice plan of care at any time and return to traditional medical care, to seek medical treatments that may become available.
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