No one should be forced to experience pain at the end of life with no relief. Unfortunately, too many people don’t get the help that they need because they’re locked into curative treatment plans that restrict the options that are available. Hospice care can turn that situation completely around for your senior.
Recognizing Pain and Putting a Plan Together
Depending on your senior’s health and the ailments that she’s facing as she nears the end of her life, she may not be able to express pain in the same ways that she did before. Paying close attention to things like grimaces, vocalizations, and other overt signs is really important. Hospice care providers can also help by monitoring blood pressure and breathing rates, which can give a clear indication of when your senior is experiencing increased pain.
Focusing on Quality of Life
The overarching goal of hospice care in general is to ensure that your elderly family member has the best quality of life that she possibly can. That might feel impossible from your perspective right now, but this means that your senior’s hospice care team works closely with her medical providers to put the best plan together for her. There may be a variety of other treatments that they can try that weren’t available to her until she made the move to hospice treatments.
Easing Rest and Increasing Periods of Rest
Rest is such an important part of experiencing relief from pain, but ironically that pain can interfere with the types of rest your senior needs. Putting together a comprehensive pain management plan is all part of what your senior’s hospice team is there to do. The more rest that your elderly family member has, the better she is going to be able to cope with everything else that’s happening around her.
Ensuring that She Has the People She Loves Close to Her
When your elderly family member is in pain constantly, she may not want to be around anyone. Or she may feel so far from normal that she isn’t really “in” when her family members are there with her. By ensuring that she’s getting the help that she needs with pain management, your elderly family member is better able to interact with the people that she loves during this essential time.
Hospice care can do so very much for your senior when she’s experiencing chronic and increased pain.
If you or an aging loved-one is considering Hospice Care in Plano, 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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