When a full recovery is no longer possible for an individual and comfort is prioritised over treatment, hospice care is the next step. Individuals living with life-limiting conditions such as cancer and heart failure often turn to hospice care to ensure that the time they have left is as comfortable as possible.
While traditionally hospice care has been provided in specialist residential settings, more and more people are choosing hospice care at home to enable them to spend their final days in the familiar and comforting surroundings of home.
In this complete guide to hospice care at home, we explore all the benefits of seeking support from professional hospice carers and how to find the right home hospice care for you or your loved one.
What is at home hospice care?
Traditionally, hospice care has typically been administered in a specialist facility, away from the comforts of home. Hospice care at home is an alternative to care home hospice environments, allowing individuals to remain in their own homes, surrounded by cherished possessions and loved ones.
When considering the final months, weeks, days, and hours of life, where would you prefer to spend that precious time? In answer to this question, more and more people are now opting for hospice care at home. Avoiding the unnecessary distress and upheaval of moving home, selling up, and relocating to a care home hospice setting is, to many, a preferable option.
What are the benefits of at home hospice care?
There are many advantages to seeking support from hospice and end-of-life care. At this difficult time of life, the comfort of a loved one living with a life-limiting condition is paramount. Receiving the benefits of a hospice from home enables individuals to live out their lives with dignity in familiar surroundings.
The benefits of home care for end of life include:
- Peace of mind for family and friends
- Coordinated care between the carer and healthcare professionals
- One-to-one personalised care
- Round-the-clock care
- Remain in the familiar surroundings of home
- No need to move into a hospice facility
- Retain daily routines
- Compassionate care
- Preserve dignity
- Companionship and someone to talk to
Hospice care at home includes all the advantages of care in a hospice but in the comfortable surroundings of home. For more information about hospice or palliative care, take a look at our palliative care guide.
Do you have to pay for hospice care?
In general, hospice care does incur a cost. However, the amount you pay will depend on various factors, including the care you need and whether you are eligible for any funding to help pay for care.
At-home hospice care is a type of live-in care, so you can expect similar costs to that of hiring a home carer. The costs of hospice care in a care home facility are similar, but the services offered can differ. With at-home hospice care, you are guaranteed one-to-one personalised care; in a care home, there may be an extra charge on your bill.
For more information on the costs of hospice care and details of funding available, take a look at our financing and funding home care guide.
Why choose Trinity Home Care?
Home-based hospice or palliative care is just one of the many types of care that Trinity Homecare is able to provide. By choosing our palliative care service, you can ensure that you are in the safe hands of a fully regulated care agency. Trinity Homecare has been rated as ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), meaning that we can offer the highest levels of care to all of our clients, whichever service they choose.
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Hospice care at home provides individuals with life-limiting conditions such as cancer or heart failure with support for the remainder of their lives, all in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of home. At home hospice care or palliative care is designed to alleviate emotional and physical stress experienced by the care receiver and their family during this difficult time.
Trinity Homecare will match your loved one with a hospice carer who meets their needs and preferences to help ensure they can live out their lives in comfort and dignity.
If you would like to learn more about arranging hospice or palliative care for your loved one, get in touch with our friendly and professional care team.
Arranging palliative care at home with Trinity is easy.
Just follow these five simple steps:
- Call our care team
- Undergo a free, no-obligation consultation to discuss your care needs and arrange a care assessment
- After the assessment, a plan of care is created
- A well-suited carer is found and placed
- Care can be adapted at any time
