Choosing to start your or a loved one’s hospice journey is a big decision and is often marked with questions about whether it’s the right time. Choosing hospice care is a highly personal decision and can be chosen for a number of different reasons.
Comfort is Now a Priority

If your treatment goals have shifted from curative treatments to comfort, hospice care is the right choice for you. Instead of focusing on aggressive curative treatments that often leave the patient feeling worse off, hospice care focuses on the patient’s well-being. This means managing pain and symptoms, allowing patients to spend time with their loved ones.
Focus on Quality of Life
By choosing hospice care, you’re choosing to focus on a better quality of life. Instead of spending your final days with pain from invasive and aggressive treatments, your care now prioritizes comfort and peace.
Support in a Familiar Environment
If you want to receive care in an environment that’s calm, comforting, and familiar, hospice care is the right choice for you. Unlike busy and noisy hospitals, hospice care can be provided wherever you call home, whether it’s your private home, nursing home or an assisted living facility.
Receiving care in a relaxing environment surrounded by loved ones and your personal belongings can help ease some of the anxiety that comes with a navigating comprehensive care for life’s transitions..
Support for Emotional and Spiritual Needs
Hospice care takes a different approach to curative and invasive treatments. Instead of focusing on the physical needs only, hospice care provides support for your emotional and spiritual needs. This is important because our emotions can influence how we perceive pain, and when you’re at peace, this can be physically felt.
In hospice care, caring for the emotional and spiritual needs can involve participating in religious rituals, such as attending church, praying, engaging in guided reflection, and having legacy planning conversations. A multidisciplinary team of compassionate professionals, including chaplains and counselors, undertakes this. The goal of this care is to help patients find purpose, meaning, and closure in their lives.
Comprehensive Family Support
If you’re looking for a type of compassionate care that not only focuses on the patient but also on their loved ones, hospice care is the right fit for you. Hospice care also includes emotional, spiritual, and practical support for your loved ones as they walk this journey with you.
Family support can include grief counseling to prepare your loved ones and guided communication. Social workers can also connect your loved ones to resources for emotional, physical, and financial support.
Compassionate Hospice Care at Maxcare Hospice
When you’re ready to start your hospice care journey, choose Maxcare Hospice. With us, you’re more than just a name on a chart. You are part of our family, and we are ready to support you and your loved ones during this time. See what people are saying about us here:
At Maxcare, you’re never alone.
To learn more about our hands-on hospice care services, please contact our compassionate team at (714) 844-7777 today. Someone is standing by now to answer your questions.
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We look forward to welcoming you to our family.