Most patients with terminal illnesses prefer to stay home with their loved ones for their remaining lives. No wonder that the most common hospice care is provided at patients’ homes. However, terminal illness is known for its ups and downs. Hence, patients sometimes experience medical crisis which is not easy to control at home. This is when the 3rd level of hospice care comes into play. Acute and complex symptom management and control of severe pain are provided most effectively in inpatient facilities.
What Signs the Patients Needs Inpatient Hospice Care?
When symptoms get too harsh to control, the patients are taken to inpatient facilities to be taken care of. But what are the signs that indicate the severity of the patients’ condition and the urge to be taken to the inpatient facility?
- Unmanageable respiratory distress
- Unmanagable agitation
- Uncontrolled pain and seizures
- Uncontrolled vomiting and nausea
- Pathological structures
- Wound care requiring frequent dressing changes
- Fluid in the belly area
Where to Get Inpatient Care?
Inpatient care is provided outside of private home – often in hospitals, nursing facilities and free-standing hospice houses with the around-the-clore care. Inpatient care is provided in a facility—often a hospital, but also nursing facilities and free-standing hospice houses—that can provide around-the-clock clinical care. Given the need and wishes of the patients to spend the remaining life in the comfort of home, the inpatient hospice facility is designed to be calmer and homelike. Family members are always welcome there day and night with an overnight stay.
The main aim behind this is to stabilize the condition of the patients so that they return to their routine hospice care level. Hospice team is continuously evaluating symptoms, while providing intensive management with 24/7 care. Based on common practice, the stabilization process takes a relatively short time, after which patients can return home.
As a result, the team is generally able to manage and control the patient’s symptoms in a relatively short time, usually in days, and the patient can return home.
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