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Bringing Hospice Home provides an example for others on how to go about developing a program to bring hospice care into the home. It is a valuable introduction to hospice for health care providers, social workers, chaplains, or volunteer staff coordinators. Interviews with members of the home hospice team and scenes from the homes of their clients highlight this innovative program's approach to total care. Both the family and the patient are considered in outlining the needs for the home care. Working closely with the physician, the specially trained, interdisciplinary home hospice team is primarily concerned with comfort care, which often means helping the patient to be pain free and mobile. Quality of life is the central issue for the team and carefully screened volunteers compliment the medical staff by providing extras such as meal preparation, errands, or companionship.

Before a patient is released from the hospital, his needs for people, supervision, and equipment are carefully assessed and discussed with the patient and his family. The family plays a key role in the implementation of the home care program, and they are also a part of the home care team's concern. For the home health care team, the last stage of their program is helping the family with their bereavement.

Color, 14 minutes, VHS

Price : $99.00