Eligibility
Knowing When Hospice Care is Right for Your Patient
What Can be the Major Symptoms
- Ongoing or sudden weight loss
- Needing more assistance with most activities of daily living
- Vomiting and nausea
- Uncontrolled pain
- Past treatments for condition(s) are no longer effective
- Frequent hospitalizations
Diagnosis
- Cancer
- End stage COPD, CHF, CVA, liver disease
- Alzheimer’s
- AIDS
- Other end-stage diagnoses may also be appropriate. Ask your doctor or the hospice team.
Who Is Eligible
- Adults of all ages
- Patients with a prognosis of six months or less if the disease runs its normal course
- Patients/families electing palliative care
- Patients not responding to curative measures
Levels of Care
- Routine home care at home
- Routine home care in nursing homes, assisted living facilities or personal care homes
- Respite care
- Crisis care
- Inpatient care
