Hospice Care

What is Hospice Care?

People facing the end of life often need special care, and their families and loved ones may need additional support as well. Common end-of-life desires include avoiding suffering, last wishes followed and dying with dignity. Hospice services provides expert, compassionate care for individuals as they face these stages in their lives. These services understand that each family is special and tailor an approach to your specific needs. Home Matters Caregiving has relationships with many of these organizations in the Portland Metropolitan area.

Hospice provides medical and supportive care for people facing a terminal illness and their families. Hospice is for people who have decided, with their physicians, that comfort care rather than curative care is now their goal. Hospice experts work with you and when the time is right the hospice trained caregivers that Home Matters Caregiving can work with in parallel to provide patients with the support needed to spend their time living as fully and completely as possible, in your own familiar surroundings, and in the company of family and friends.

Hospice Care Support Services

If you’re in the situation where the time has come in a senior’s life to focus on comfort, Home Matters Caregiving can provide support to the hospice care your loved one is receiving. We partner with nearly all of the Home Hospice services in the Portland metropolitan area and our Nurse, Occupational Therapist and Administrator will be able to put together a comprehensive care plan that is personalized to the needs of you and your family.

Home Hospice Care Support Benefits

Many people believe home hospice services provide round-the-clock care but unfortunately, this is not the case. Often, hospice services offer an hour or two of care per day, plus a weekly check-in by a nurse. Some hospice programs won’t accept patients who don’t have a full-time caregiver at home which is where Home Matters Caregiving can help.

In the Portland metropolitan area, our specially trained hospice support caregivers can provide companionship, personal care services and respite care. We can also offer clinical information about how your loved one is doing in between visits from your hospice nurse.

Other Services We Offer

  • Respite for family that have been the primary providers of care
  • Personal care
  • Emotional support
  • Companionship
  • Housekeeping
  • Reading aloud
  • Grooming and dressing
  • Bedding changes

Hospice can be a difficult time for both your loved one and your family. Home Matters Caregiving will allow you to take off the caregiver name tag and simply be the loving daughter, son or grandchild. Our clinical team along with the professional caregivers on our team can enable you to do just that.

For compassionate hospice support caregiving in the Portland Metropolitan area, call us at 503-352-5634.

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