Long Term Hospice Care in Central Georgia

When patients are diagnosed with a terminal illness, we find that most just want to be comfortable. Hospice Care Options offers many solutions to provide our patient’s comfort, support, and pain management. Long-term care is geared towards chronic illnesses as well as terminal. An illness is considered chronic when the patient will live several or many years with us and needs certain care or accommodations, such as Parkinson’s Disease or heart disease.

Why is long-term care important?

Many patients with a memory loss illness, such as dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease, require long-term care due to the nature of their illness. They often feel like they need to get back to a certain time or place that is familiar to them, so door locks and alarms are used to help keep them from wandering off and getting lost or hurt. Without long-term care, these patients may attempt to cook, drive, or do other things that may be dangerous for a memory-impaired person to do.

There’s no place like home…or is there?

While patients are often most comfortable in their own home, sometimes that is not possible and we work to make any location “home”.

“Home” may be a private home, whether it is the patient’s home or that of a family member.

“Home” may also be at an assisted living facility, a skilled nursing facility, or when a higher level of medical care is needed, a hospital.

Let us help you and your family

Hospice Care Options can provide care to those already living in a nursing home or help to make the transition from another location into a nursing home. Hospice Care Options works with several locations in the Middle Georgia area and can recommend a facility that suits the patient and family best.

Regardless of the location, Hospice Care Options patients and families receive:

• Consistent care from a team of medical professionals, no frequent switching of doctors and nurses
• Highly trained medical professionals and volunteers
• Expert counseling for the patient and the family
• 24/7 service and response
• Paperwork and insurance assistance, if needed
• Peace of mind, knowing your loved one is in the right hands