Hospice Services

Your loved one’s daily activities are slowing down. They may need significant help with moving around, may need continuous oxygen or may have difficulty swallowing. As you consider these changing realities for you and your family, know that hospice care is here to ease some of the heaviness so that you can be fully present to enjoy the time you have together. Signs it might be time for hospice care include:

• A decline in overall physical/mental status
• A need for help with most daily activities (bathing, dressing, toileting, eating)
• Continuous use of oxygen
• Difficulty swallowing
• Frequent hospitalizations or emergency room visits
• Multiple medical problems or diagnoses
• Profound weakness or fatigue
• Recurrent edema/swelling
• Repeat infections (pneumonia, bronchitis, urinary tract infections)
• Shortness of breath or chest pain at rest
• Significant, unintentional weight loss in the last six months
• Uncontrolled pain or vomiting

When the time comes for you to engage in hospice care for your loved one, you won't be alone. We'll be here, marking the moments with you and doing all we can to ensure you have the emotional support to mark them, too.

Once your loved one enters hospice, our care team at AdventHealth will work with you in providing day-to-day care. Your team will include your loved one's primary physician, a hospice physician, nurse case manager, social worker, volunteer coordinator, chaplain, hospice aide and a bereavement counselor, all of whom stand ready to provide quality-of-life-focused care.