At first blush, hospice care and palliative care might sound an awful lot alike. Both tend to be options at the end of someone’s life and they involve caring for people dealing with complicated health. But palliative care does have some very big differences that can be a huge benefit for your senior and for your entire family.
When Each Type of Care Is Available to Your Senior
Typically, hospice care is a treatment recommended by your senior’s medical team when she is expected to have around six months left in her life. Palliative care, on the other hand, is available at any time your senior wants to begin receiving it. Palliative care is usually made available for people who are diagnosed with a chronic, progressive illness.
Palliative Care Helps Families Understand What’s Happening
One of the most difficult things about a diagnosis for your senior that you weren’t expecting is that you might not know what you’re up against. This can be a frustrating situation to navigate all alone, and doctors may be able to offer only so much help. Palliative care can offer much more education for your senior and for the entire family. They can help you all to prepare for what’s happening next.
Palliative Therapies Focus on Assisting with Emotional Issues
There are a lot of difficult emotions that arise when facing mortality and difficult health issues. Palliative care services offer ways for your senior to deal with these emotions and thoughts in a way that is healthy and that allows her to process them effectively. As new emotions and thoughts arise, that help is still there.
Your Senior Still Might Want Curative Therapies
Another big difference between these options is that when your senior chooses hospice care, all curative treatments must stop. Palliative care works hand-in-hand with curative therapies, allowing your senior to meet all of her various needs on all levels. This is a much more thorough and holistic approach to managing a difficult illness at this stage of her life.
Palliative care is a very different type of treatment solution than your senior may have had access to in the past. It is a way for all of her family and her to come to terms with what’s happening and to offer up the best combination of solutions for where she is now and for where she wants to be in the future.
If you or an aging loved-one is considering Palliative Care in Denton, 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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