Contact: Maria Patino 832.410.3192 houstonhospices.com When medical care cannot offer a cure, hospice provides expert care, comfort and support. Houston Hospice provides a holistic approach, with the goal of ensuring quality end of life care. This specialized medicine addresses all symptoms of a disease, with special emphasis on controlling discomfort and pain. Hospice also … [Read more...]
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Feelings and Cancer
Contact: Maria Patino 832.410.3132 houstonhospices.com Dealing with the different side effects and life changes of cancer treatment can be hard on you emotionally as well as physically. Just as cancer affects your physical health, it can bring up a wide range of feelings you’re not used to dealing with. It can also make many feelings seem more intense. They may change daily, hourly, or even … [Read more...]
Caring for a Loved One who is in the process of passing
Caring for a dying loved one isn't easy. Even when you know the end of life is approaching, you might not feel prepared. Understanding what to expect — and what you can do to increase your loved one's comfort — can help. Choosing where to die Your loved one might have choices for end-of-life care. Options might include: Home care. Many people choose to die at home or in the home of a … [Read more...]
Hospice Care
Considered tho be the model for quality, compassionate care for people facing a life- limiting illness or injury, hospice care involves a team- oriented approach to expert medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support expressly tailored to the patient's needs and wishes. Support is provided to the patient's loved ones as well. At the center of hospice and palliative care is … [Read more...]
Houston Hospice explains what is grief and bereavement
Grief may be experienced in response to physical losses, such as death, or in response to symbolic or social losses such as divorce of loss of a job. The grief experience can be affected by one's history and support system. Taking care of yourself and accessing the support of friends and family can help you cope with your grief experience. There is no right way to grieve. It is an individual … [Read more...]
Most people choosing Hospice at life’s end
People facing a fatal illness often find their fears and pain exacerbated by lack of control -- with doctors poking and prodding and treating and testing even as the end grows near. Hospice care, however, can give back some control over someone's final days through its compassionate focus on treating pain and helping both the dying person and the person's family emotionally grapple with what's … [Read more...]
Getting help for your grief
Losing someone close to you can make you feel sad, lost, alone, and maybe even angry. You greatly miss the person who has died—you want them back. You might have also been so busy with caregiving that it now seems you have nothing to do. This can add to your feelings of loss. This is all part of grieving, a normal reaction to the loss of someone you love. There are many ways to grieve and to … [Read more...]
End of life helping with comfort care
At the end of life, each story is different. Death comes suddenly, or a person lingers, gradually failing. For some older people, the body weakens while the mind stays alert. Others remain physically strong, and cognitive losses take a huge toll. But for everyone, death is inevitable, and each loss is personally felt by those close to the one who has died. End-of-life care is the term used to … [Read more...]
Palliative care center
You may have heard of a new medical term- Palliative care (pronounced PAH-LEE-UH-TIVE). For the last thirty years, palliative care has been provided by hospice programs for dying Americans. Currently these programs serve more than 1 million patients and their families each year. Now this very same approach to care is being used by other health care providers, including teams in hospitals, … [Read more...]
Planning for end of live care decisions
Comfort care is an essential part of medical care at the end of life. It is care that helps or soothes a person who is dying. The goal is to prevent or relieve suffering as much as possible while respecting the dying person’s wishes. You are probably reading this because someone close to you is dying. Is it a parent or grandparent, your husband or wife, a favorite aunt or uncle, your best … [Read more...]
