Pacific Point Home Health & Hospice Care

Dealing with aging parents with siblings....see more

Understanding the impact of music

The Death Doula movement is blooming. What is the difference between hospice and EOL Workers and how can they work together? I answer that in my latest blog art...icle below... ~HOSPICE AND END OF LIFE WORKERS~ It used to be the word hospice was synonymous with the term end of life care, not so today. Today there are end of life doulas, death doulas, death midwives, transition volunteers, and No One Dies Alone volunteers. (For the purposes of this blog I will refer to this entire group as EOL Workers). A few EOL Workers work for hospice while others offer support and services independent of a hospice agency. The majority of hospices in this country are medicare certified. Meeting Medicare hospice guidelines makes them eligible for medicare reimbursement. Services are provided to the patient at no charge because medicare is picking up the bill, so to speak. Being certified also requires hospices to provide certain services. BUT, as with everything, just meeting requirements does not insure quality. What is the difference between what hospice provides and what the EOL Workers provide? Hospice services are more medically oriented. They also provide a variety of services that are non medical but their foundation is the medical model. EOL Workers are non medical personnel. They are people who have been trained to address the support issues for the patient and family of someone with a life threatening illness. They have extensive knowledge in the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and communal aspects of the dying process. There are nurses, social workers, and chaplains that are EOL Workers... (for more write "workers" in the comments below) See more

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Things to consider as we remember the loss of loved ones as holiday season approaches.

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