Five Star Hospice and Palliative Care LLC offers the following services:
- Hospice Care
- Palliative Care
Before choosing a service for your loved ones, you must know the difference between the two. Hospice and palliative care both bring comfort and relief. However, they differ in significant ways. It’s best to know more about their difference to be able to choose the best care plan that suits your loved one’s condition.
Palliative Care vs Hospice Care
For those who wish to avail of our palliative care services, you should know that this type of care begins with a diagnosis and with treatment as well. Palliative care generally helps patients manage their symptoms. While hospice care begins when a treatment has been stopped due to the patient’s low survival rate or none at all and is usually provided to those who are expected to live for 6 months or less.
Who Can Get Palliative Care?
Palliative Care can be provided to individuals with chronic illnesses, such as:
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Stroke
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Colon Cancer
- Congestive Heart Failure
- HIV/AIDS
- Leukemia and Lymphoma
- Liver Disease
- Lung Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Multiple Myeloma
- Prostate Cancer
- ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
Who Can Get Hospice Care?
Hospice Care can be provided to patients who are suffering from a terminal illness, as well as their family members.
According to the American Cancer Society, hospice care is a special kind of care that focuses on the quality of life for people and their family members who are experiencing advanced, life-limiting illnesses. Hospice care provides compassionate care for people in the last phases of incurable disease to help them live as fully and as comfortably as possible.
What Is Palliative Care
When your loved ones experience serious illnesses, palliative care will help them manage their symptoms and the side effects of their treatment. Palliative care aims to enhance the quality of life of patients and their family members for as long as possible and as comfortable as possible by providing emotional, social, practical, physical, and spiritual support.
Get in Touch with FSHPC
Should you have any questions about our services, feel free to contact us. Our representatives will get back to you shortly. We are looking forward to accommodating your needs!