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Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning is an important process of planning for medical care in case you’re unable to make your own decisions or speak for yourself. It permits peace of mind for you and your family by reducing uncertainty and helping to avoid confusion over your care. It provides assurances that your wishes will be honored that you’ll receive all the health care you want but only the care you want
Caregiver's Support
Caregiver's Support
You are a Caregiver if you are a spouse, adult child, other relative or friend who helps, cares for or is concerned about someone with a life limiting illness. Being a caregiver is a big commitment. For most people who take on the responsibility of providing care to someone with serious health issues information and options about caregiving helps you define your role.
Dying With Dignity
Dying With Dignity
Dying with Dignity is all about the patient. It means the availability of open, honest communication between providers-patients-support systems to whatever degree the patient wants. It refers to your physical comfort, your independence, the meaning and usefulness of your life, your plans- your way-no matter the time left.
Legal Services
Legal Services
Information and assistance with services for wills, trusts, estates, preparation of health care proxy, living will, power of attorney, probate and other attorney and paralegal tasks.
Social Support
Social Support
The social aspects of life are frequently impacted by illness. The social needs are assessed, options are made available and implemented utilizing patient caregivers, home environment and community supports.
Financial Services
Financial Services
Information and assistance with money management, trusts, financial assessment, on line banking, budgeting, tax preparation, checkbook management and other services.
Emotional Services
Emotional Services
There is always an emotional response to serious illness; it challenges a person’s sense of themselves and their roles in life. These services provide assistance to issue and relationship resolution while utilizing a plan of care that maximizes individual independence.
Spiritual Services
Spiritual Services
Spirituality is understood by some in terms of religious feeling, and by others in terms of personal meaning in a larger context. These services permit spiritual growth, spiritual reconciliation and discussion of values.
Palliative Care in Home
Palliative Care in Home
Palliative Care is the management of an individual’s life-limiting diagnosis with the goal of providing optimum quality of life in the home with supportive services as defined by the individual.
Palliative Care Out of Home
Palliative Care Out of Home
Palliative Care is the management of an individual’s life-limiting diagnosis with the goal of providing optimum quality of life as defined by the individual. This care might be located in an Adult Home, an Assisted Living Facility, A Skilled Nursing Facility, a Hospice Unit or a Hospital.
Advocacy
Advocacy
Professional services and/or agencies that advocate for a system that provides quality palliative care for patients. May include legislation, policy formulation and practice enhancement activities.
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Understanding of terminology, choices, and consequences
Understanding of terminology, choices, and consequences
The ability to provide education to patients & families about the options available to them, the choices they may face and the likely outcomes of those choices
Preparing MOLST
Preparing MOLST
MOLST - Medical Orders Life Sustaining Treatments The ability to provide, educate & prepare the document with a patient & family
Health Care Proxy, Living Will, and Proxy Registry
Health Care Proxy, Living Will, and Proxy Registry
Community awareness and use of Health Care Proxy, Living Will, and Proxy Registry
Organ donation and anatomical gifting
Organ donation and anatomical gifting
Provision of information & education regarding donating organs or the gifting of one's body to science
Individuals with Special Needs
Individuals with Special Needs
Services for indiviuals which accomodates special assistance they may require or are offered by a specialty agency
Anatomical gifting and organ donation
Anatomical gifting and organ donation
Information regarding the donation of body organs after death for transplant, research, therapy or education and/or leaving one's body to science
Preparing Health Care Proxy and Living Will
Preparing Health Care Proxy and Living Will
Assistance with preparation and filing of Health Care Proxy and Living Will documents.
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