Hospice care is a specific and special way that emphasizes comfort and dignity for individuals coping with terminal illnesses.
Finding Home Hospice in Westchester
The philosophy of hospice accepts death as the final stage of life. It affirms life but does not attempt to hasten or postpone one’s death, nor attempt to cure an individual’s underlying disease. The main focus of hospice is to support the highest quality of life for whatever time remains, at a patient’s “home”. Whether it is a private residence, a skilled nursing facility, or an assisted living facility, Jansen Hospice, and Palliative Care can provide professional and quality home hospice care in Westchester.
Defining Westchester Home Hospice Care
Hospice care can provide palliative care for patients looking to manage their symptoms. This can help reduce their suffering and pain, manage one’s emotional needs and provide comfort to enhance one’s quality of life.
Hospice care can not only support patients who have a life-limiting illness, but it can provide assistance to family members and caregivers. When caring for someone who is on hospice, can be both an honor and joy, but can be emotionally and physically taxing. To ease this, hospice can offer support, education, counseling, and respite care to reduce stress and anxiety.
Deciding On Jansen Home Hospice, Westchester
Jansen Hospice and Palliative Care believe that life should not be defined by one’s illness. We work to make sure each and every patient’s life is lived to the fullest until the very end. To make this possible we use an interdisciplinary approach to hospice care. This is to customize the programs for pour patients and meet their unique medical, physical, emotional, spiritual, and cultural needs.
To meet these needs, each patient becomes the focus of a dedicated hospice “team”. These team members can include the patient’s physician, our medical director, our nurses, social workers, home health aides, clergy, bereavement specialists, therapists, and volunteers – who all work together to ensure coordination of services and continuity of care during the final stages of life.
Complementary Care, Home Hospice Westchester
Complementary care is for an increased sense of peace and well-being. Complementary therapy is also known as integrative therapy. This may be used along with the standard medical treatments of care to promote relaxation, increase comfort levels, and support a sense of well-being.
Integrative therapy can include acoustic/music relaxation, Acupuncture, Aromatherapy, art therapy, massage therapy, pet therapy, Reflexology, Reiki, and therapeutic.
Services Offered for Home Hospice in Westchester
These services are just some of the services offered by Jansen Hospice and Palliative Care:
- 24-hour on-call services and assistance, so we are always available for our patients and their families.
- A medical director who is responsible for overall medical care and planning, with an emphasis on symptom control and pain management.
- Skilled nursing care and visits from a registered nurse who formulates the hospice plan of care in communication with the patient’s physician, including arrangement for medications, supplies, equipment, and additional services as needed
- Certified home health aides who provide care and assistance with personal needs
- Certified social workers who assist with resource and care planning, in addition to providing emotional support
- Spiritual counseling for all faith communities
… and much more that can be found on our website!
These services are offered: in their own home, in a skilled nursing or assisted living facility, or in a local New-York Presbyterian contracted hospital.
