Keystone Resources
Palliative Care & Hospice Differences
When you or a loved one are experiencing severe pain, discomfort, or disability from a serious or long-lasting illness, you may want to consider palliative care or hospice treatment options. While each model aims to provide care and support, they are commonly confused with one another due to their mutual focus on individuals with life-limiting conditions.
But which is most appropriate for your circumstances?
Understanding Hospice Care for Veterans
Everyone deserves to leave this world with a certain degree of comfort and respect. Hospice care for veterans is designed to relieve pain and to assist with physical, emotional, and spiritual symptoms that arise at the end of life. Read on to learn more about hospice care for veterans and to see what benefits Keystone Hospice provides.
Benefits of Massage Therapy
While hospice care is geared toward improving the quality of life for patients whose disease or illness is unlikely to be cured, there is no reason hospice patients need to suffer. Treatments addressing the physical, emotional, and spiritual state of being can ensure remaining time is spent as comfortably and contentedly as possible.
Hospice Myths & Misconceptions
Hospice care is more than just an option for terminally ill patients. For many, it is an eventuality. For as many patients who receive hospice care, however, there are just as many who misunderstand it. Learn the truth about hospice and help dispel the stigma that surrounds this important service.
Signs it May be Time for Hospice Care
No one wants to think about losing a loved one. For the caregivers of terminally ill patients, however, it is not a matter of if but when. When curative treatment is no longer an option, it is time to start thinking about how to make your loved one as comfortable as possible for their remaining days. It is time to start thinking about hospice care.
Virtual Reality & Bucket List Items
Hiking the Appalachian Trail. Touring Venice’s beautiful canals by gondola. Skydiving from a height of 13,000 feet. These are things you may expect to see on a person’s bucket list. For people in good health in the prime of their youth, these things are still very much possible, but for terminally ill patients in hospice, they are nothing more than a fantasy.
Or are they?