Hospice services from Divine Guardian Hospice
Our hospice care services are for adult and pediatric patients with a wide range of life-limiting illnesses, including cancer, stroke, heart disease, lung disease, liver disease, kidney disease, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Alzheimer’s and AIDS.
Hospice Home Care
Divine Guardian Hospice can bring hospice services to you or your loved one, in the place that’s most comfortable — home. And we’re experts at managing the transition from hospital to your home, from curative to palliative care.
Palliative care
Palliative care has been a board-certified medical specialty since 2006 in the US, but palliative care has been around for centuries. We’ve all had palliative medicine, also called comfort care. If you break a bone, you seek a cure, the doctor sets it and keeps it immobile in order for it to heal. But she prescribes painkillers to make you comfortable. The painkillers are palliative: they improve the quality of your life while you and your physician cope with your broken bone.
Generally, when we talk about palliative care, it’s in the context of serious illness: chronic, progressive pulmonary disorders, renal disease, chronic heart failure, HIV/AIDS, progressive neurological conditions, cancer, etc.
Veterans Hospice Care
Divine Guardian Hospice end-of-life care experts are trained to support the difficult circumstances faced by some veterans near the end of life, including financial and benefit concerns, post-traumatic stress disorder, unresolved issues associated with the stresses of military service, depression, and suicide
Medical social services
Medical social workers create long-range plans, such as advance care planning and educate both patients and their families about community resources and support. Medical social services include:
- Assessing social and emotional factors
- Advanced care planning
- Community resource planning
- Advanced directives
- Crisis intervention
- Counseling
- Teaching regarding coping with loss and change
Home care aide or homemaker services
We offer household services in order to keep your home a clean and safe place. Our services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Homemaking services are a great option for when you first begin using assistance in the comfort of your home. It includes:
- Meal planning and preparation
- Light housekeeping
- Vacuuming and dusting
- Sweeping and mopping
- Changing bed sheets
- Laundry
- Dishwashing
- Cleaning bathroom and kitchen
- Emptying trash
- Assistance sorting and reading the mail etc.
Physical Therapy
Our physical therapists offer services that include, but are not limited to:
- Orthopedics
- Pain management
- Body mechanics
- Education and training in the use of assistive devices
- Improving range of motion
- Muscle re-education
- Sports rehabilitation therapy
- Flexibility training
- Aquatic (pool) therapy
- Arthritis care
- Back and neck care
- Hand therapy
- Pre- and post-surgery care
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy Services help patients to restore their independence and mobility. Our occupational therapists will assist you in:
- Patient re-education
- Home safety
- Engaging in recreational activities
- Patient assessment on energy management and conservation
- Assessment and evaluation of health and basic skills
- Planning and implementation of therapeutic programs
- Basic level skills education and training
- Device assistance training, and work simplification (laundry, meal preparation, bathing, grooming, eating, etc.)
Speech Therapy
The main goal of speech therapy is to help a patient regain communication skills. So, they can easily interact with the environment and express their needs and desires. The therapy also focuses on regaining the ability to eat and swallow without the help of the other people. The advantage of the speech therapy is it can be performed at their home and every therapy is designed according to the patient’s needs. This is especially important for people suffering from dementia or cognitive impairment.
Respite care hospice
Respite care is focused primarily on the family. Taking care of your loved ones sometimes can be both physically and emotionally exhausting. Respite Care provides non-medical care during the absence of the family caregiver. Thanks to our caregivers, you will get a free time to relax and regain energy and positive thinking.
Bereavement support hospice
We offer continuing grief and bereavement support to families and friends for up to thirteen months. Even after that time, we are there for you to listen and help you work through your grief.