hospice care?
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Until I retired in 2006, I worked full time and more for two decades
as a home hospice care giver in Santa Fe for all the agencies, in hospitals, and every kind of private home and rental unit. Any well established agency provides excellent helpers, as well as visits by RNs, respiratory techs, pastors, counselors, nutritionists... It reduces the load on family members, who can be otherwise drawn in past their limits of energy, worry needlessly, or not be informed about myriad practical details. Good givers have an trusting, accepting, allowing, receptive, patient, supportive, flexible, open minded, respectful, practical attitude. Home care is usually far preferable to hospital or nursing home care, if practical. Family members may benefit deeply on many levels by sharing the life experience of a loved one at home with hospice care. Rather complete pain control with modern drug delivery is available. There's no perfect or right way to live this phase of life experience -- it's as individual and unique as any other aspect of living. In mutual service, Rich Murray 505-819-7388 On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote: > We are considering hospice care for a family member here in Santa Fe. > > Has anyone experience with this? What are the problems? Upsides? > Downsides? Pros/Cons? > > Thanks > > -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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I'd like to underscore what Rich says. My family has had a long (more than thirty years) involvement in the hospice movement (in the SF Bay Area, not here) and usually the biggest problem for a family is that they fail to call on hospice soon enough. There's a feeling that this is somehow "giving up." But the fact is, everybody benefits, both the family and the patient--and the sooner the better, for all the reasons Rich says.
Pamela On Jun 16, 2011, at 9:02 PM, Rich Murray wrote:
"Should I refuse my dinner because I don't understand the digestive system?" Oliver Heaviside============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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I replied to Owen separately about my experiences, but I'd like to
reiterate for all what Rich and Pamela said. Don't wait until the
stress is upon you, because you can't really hide that stress. You
can never prepare yourself completely, but you can do the research
about alternatives sooner rather than later. Everybody benefits.
Really. Actually thinking about it is less stressful than thinking
about thinking about it.
Carl On 6/16/11 9:42 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: I'd like to underscore what Rich says. My family has had a long (more than thirty years) involvement in the hospice movement (in the SF Bay Area, not here) and usually the biggest problem for a family is that they fail to call on hospice soon enough. There's a feeling that this is somehow "giving up." But the fact is, everybody benefits, both the family and the patient--and the sooner the better, for all the reasons Rich says. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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