{"id":2265,"date":"2019-03-16T06:56:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T06:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affinityhospice.accoonalabs.com\/?page_id=2265"},"modified":"2019-03-19T07:46:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T07:46:53","slug":"myths-about-hospice-care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/affinityhospice.accoonalabs.com\/?page_id=2265","title":{"rendered":"Myths About Hospice Care"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MYTHS ABOUT HOSPICE CARE<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Hospice care is only for those who have a few days or weeks to live.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>False!\u00a0 To be eligible to receive hospice care, a doctor must certify that the individual has a prognosis of 6 months or less if their terminal disease runs its natural course.\u00a0 However, no one knows exactly how much time any of us has remaining and some people receive hospice care for a year or more.<\/p>\n

Hospice patients must be bed bound.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 False!\u00a0 Hospice care is designed to empower and enable terminally ill individuals to enjoy the best possible quality of life for however long they are physically able.\u00a0 Our patients are encouraged to LIVE, one even fulfilling his dream of skydiving!<\/p>\n

Hospice care is probably expensive.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>False!\u00a0 For Medicare beneficiaries and Medicaid recipients, there is NO out of pocket expense for hospice care.\u00a0 Many people have worked hard for decades and earned their Medicare benefits; we encourage them to take advantage of what they\u2019ve earned.\u00a0 We also work with subscribers of private insurance to utilize hospice care benefits through their medical policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Hospices give their patients lots of medicines that make them sleep all the time. <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0False!\u00a0 Hospice care is driven by the person\u2019s family doctor or the hospice Medical Director taking into careful considering the patient\u2019s wishes.\u00a0 The hospice team will ask about the patient and family\u2019s preferences regarding medicines, treatments, etc. Every person is different and their individual wishes will be honored by hospice staff, even if those wishes include refusing medications.<\/p>\n

Hospices deprive patients of all medical treatment.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>False! The goal of hospice care is to make sure that each patient is comfortable and free of pain and symptoms of the terminal illness.\u00a0 For example, the hospice team will make sure that symptoms like shortness of breath, pain, anxiety, and nausea are addressed to the patient and caregiver\u2019s satisfaction.<\/p>\n

If I accept hospice care, I\u2019m giving up on my loved one.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>False!\u00a0 Accepting hospice care is exactly the opposite of giving up.\u00a0 Accepting hospice care is choosing to live the BEST quality of life possible by having your terminal illness managed in the comfort and privacy of your own home, nursing facility, assisted living, or hospital.<\/p>\n

Hospice staff will be judgmental of my situation.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>False!\u00a0 The team at Affinity Hospice meets each individual where they are. We aren\u2019t interested in anyone\u2019s past, only helping them to enjoy and LIVE in the present!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MYTHS ABOUT HOSPICE CARE Hospice care is only for those who have a few days or weeks to live.\u00a0 False!\u00a0 To be eligible to receive hospice care, a doctor must certify that the individual has a prognosis of 6 months or less if their terminal disease runs its natural course.\u00a0 … Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2265","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affinityhospice.accoonalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affinityhospice.accoonalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affinityhospice.accoonalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affinityhospice.accoonalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affinityhospice.accoonalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/affinityhospice.accoonalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/affinityhospice.accoonalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2265\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affinityhospice.accoonalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}