Choosing Hospice
Today, one out of three people in the United States choose hospice care when they are dying. Families need to understand hospice care and the steps necessary to access this quality end-of-life option.What is hospice?
Hospice is a special concept of care designed to provide comfort and support to patients and their families. Patients are referred to hospice when life expectancy is approximately six months or less. Hospice care can continue longer than six months if needed but requires physician certification.
Learn some facts about hospice care here.
Visit our Featured Story - A Gentle Death: Five Months with Hospice.
New Online Course Available: Hospice College of America is now offering HFA's Living With Grief: Children and Adolescents teleconference as an online course for professionals! Earn continuing education hours at your home or office computer; only $35 for three credit hours. Register online now.
Living With Grief: Children and Adolescents - full-length DVD now available.
HFA's July E-Newsletter - Focus On: Discussions about African-Americans and End-of-Life Decision Making
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- Now in Spanish, HFA's Choosing Hospice. Order Here.
- Clergy to Clergy: Helping You Minister to Those Confronting Illness, Death and Grief.
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