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Telehealth Monitoring
Memorial Home Services offers telehealth monitoring, an automated device placed in
patients' homes to take vital signs,
remind them to take medication and answer simple questions about their condition.
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Hospice
Hospice
Hospice is quality, compassionate care for people facing a life-limiting illness or injury. Hospice and palliative care involve a team-oriented approach to expert medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support expressly tailored to the patient's needs and wishes. Our hospice services also provide bereavement support to the patient's loved ones for up to a year after the patient's death.
The focus of hospice relies on the belief that each of us has the right to die pain-free and with dignity, and that our loved ones will receive the necessary support to allow us to do so. The focus is on caring, not curing. Our hospice care is provided to you in your own home. However, we also provide hospice services in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. Hospice is available to persons of any age, religion or race.
Our team of professionals includes:
- Medical Director
- Registered Nurses
- Home Health Aides
- Medical Social Workers
- Chaplain
- Trained Volunteers
- Pharmacist
- Dietary and Therapies
Among its major responsibilities, the interdisciplinary hospice team:
- Manages the patient's pain and symptoms
- Assists the patient with the emotional and psychosocial and spiritual aspects of dying
- Provides needed medications, medical supplies, and equipment
- Coaches the family on how to care for the patient
- Delivers special services like speech and physical therapy when needed
- Makes short-term inpatient care available when pain or symptoms become too difficult to manage at home, or the caregiver needs respite time
- Provides bereavement care and counseling to surviving family and friends
In many cases, family members or loved ones are the patient's primary care givers. Additionally, hospice recognizes that loved ones have their own special needs for support. As a relationship with the hospice begins, hospice staff will want to know about the primary caregiver's priorities. They will also want to know how best to support the patient and family during this time. Support can take many different forms, including visits with the patient and family members; telephone calls to loved ones, including family members who live at a distance, about the patient's condition; and the provision of volunteers to assist with patient and family needs.
Counseling services for the patient and loved ones are an important part of hospice care. After the patient's death, bereavement support is offered to families for at least one year. These services can take a variety of forms, including telephone calls, visits, written materials about grieving, and support groups. Individual counseling may be offered by the hospice or the hospice may make a referral to a community resource.
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