Honoring Life - Offering Compassion - ProvidingExcellence!
Honoring Life - Offering Compassion - ProvidingExcellence!
Peaceful Touch Hospice & Palliative Care , LLC Provides comprehensive and compassionate end of life care aimed at controlling symptoms and preserving dignity. Peaceful Touch also provides interdisciplinary approaches and complete care that addresses the physical and emotional needs of patients and their families.
Palliative care/Hospice is not a place. This is care that comforts and supports patients and their families when a life limiting illness no longer responds to cure oriented treatments. Hospice can be provided anywhere a person calls home. Hospice is a medical discipline that treat symptoms not the cause of the time no illness for people in the last months weeks and days. The goal is not to cure but to make the best of the remaining time of life.
Initially the efforts to treat a disease are focused on achieving remission or even a cure. But terminal illness progresses, the side of fix and intensity of the treatment can outweigh Amy expected benefits. This is the point at which hospice care can do the most good, controlling pain, managing symptoms, a dressing spiritual needs, and providing support to the entire family.
Your doctor can help determine when the time is right to begin hospice care. Hospices is not about losing hope, giving up on life and dying. By utilizing hospice care, the focus becomes maximizing the quality of life. As the patient's health declines and his or her care needs increase, hospice can addressed these needs by taking a gradual, non crisis approach. This results in a less stressful experience for patients and families.