EIGHT BENEFITS OF HOSPICE CARE - Putnam County Hospice and Palliative Care Association (PCHPCA)

Hospice supports the whole person and the family. In addition to managing the patient’s physical concerns, social, emotional, and spiritual factors are also addressed. Hospice helps families deal with the range of emotions that surround this difficult time, offering support from social workers and chaplains. After a loved one has passed, hospice offers the family bereavement and grief counseling and help with some of the after-death tasks that need to be completed.
Hospice seeks to empower individuals and families by providing them with information so they know what to expect.
Hospice offers a familiar environment. Hospice will come to the patient wherever he or she calls home.
Hospice care prevents or reduces trips to the emergency room.
Hospice care can free patients to have a time of personal growth, allowing them to get the most they can out of the time they have left
Research indicates longer average survival rates in hospice. A 2015 review study reported hospice care might be associated with longer survival compared with “aggressive” care outside of a hospice, and that patients who received hospice care had greater satisfaction and superior symptom control compared with those who did not receive hospice care.
Research indicates a better end-of-life experience. A 2016 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Associationindicates a better end-of-life experience for cancer patients who died with the support of hospice as compared with a hospital's intensive care department.
Families receiving hospice services report healthier grieving.