Hospice Care: How Does It Work

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10 жыл бұрын

Dr. Gregory Phelps, medical director at UT Hospice, provides detailed information about caring for loved ones in their final stages of life. A variety of topics are discussed, including pain management and comfort strategies, how a hospice team works, the different types of hospice and how hospice can help a patient come to terms with the end of his or her life.
Also in this video, meet a patient who shares her story of putting both of her parents through hospice.
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@RickKoeppen 2 жыл бұрын

Good lord, I would have thought by now Dr. Bob would be on the RECEIVING end of Hospice. Good to see he is STILL pumping out video content on this channel.

@tlclaurie Ай бұрын

Excellent overview of hospice ! Thank you

@ayeayehla4869 Жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏💖💞💖🤗🤗🤗 Thank you Hospice team.

@rodolforamirez6118 3 жыл бұрын

My wife slowly declined from 45 years of living with systemic lupus erythematosus and all the health declines that we learned to accept as secondary to the effects of "the body against itself." (series of strokes, heart valve issues, cerebral/cognitive declines, epileptic episodes, congestive heart failures, obesity issues that come with prolonged medicine cocktails, and musclo skeletal deterioration.) Last 10 years were wheelchair bound; last 18 months were under hospice care; last 4 months were bedbound; last month was rapid loss; last week was "losing her" time. WITHOUT HOSPICE CARE UNDER TWO DIFFERRENT AGREEMENTS WE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD AS PEACEFUL AND SOFT A LANDING AT THE END IN NOVEMBER, 2019 HERE AT HOME. GOD BLESS AMERICA, GOD BLESS OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM!!!!

@maryloufremlin4152 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you ! for sharing in all this modern medicine Lupus is not mentioned as it should be my sister passed after over 35 years with Lupus ♥️

@godzillaunchained 4 жыл бұрын

5 Years after first produced and this video is still a great resource in understanding this difficult subject. Thank you so much, Dr. Bob and Dr. Gregory. Kind guys.

@mannyvillanueva2389 4 жыл бұрын

I have watched multiple videos on this 2 grasp what it was, how to make the decision whether or not to use it. this video was the best one ever

@karencrecco2922 4 жыл бұрын

Why all these negative comments? I only had good experiences with hospice!

@jbird1012 3 жыл бұрын

I am truly glad that your experiences were good. Some of us were not so lucky.

@reginabieg2287 Жыл бұрын

@@jbird1012 hospice can be "fired" if you no longer want them there you can send them packing. You don't need to allow them in your home. But then you will return equity they provided and need to return to dr and hospital for any care and medication needs. The family is in charge, but hospice has its rules, if you cannot work within those rulesctgat is fine, cut off from the hospice services.

@jbird1012 Жыл бұрын

@@reginabieg2287 It wasn't us that couldn't work within the rules, it was them. In hindsight, we were just unlucky with the team assigned to our case. Overall, Hospice is a great resource.

@apriljames726 4 жыл бұрын

My friend and neighbor is on hospice and they are not taking care of her i am. Its so hard i have to do all her laundry help her walk to the bathroom and clean up the mess.. She is so stubborn. I spent a few nights there, tonight i'm home she was awake and walking to the bathroom all by her self. I keep running over to check on her but its 9 pm im just now making my meal and trying to relax shes starting to lose her mental capacity, i just lost my brother this is tearing me apart, I am always helping her i dont mind im just still in morning. I'm so stressed out i am the only one hospice stops by she says she is fine and i have to clean up the diapers. Why am i doing all this work im trying to keep her home where she wanted to die but its so hard.

@bluegirl4326 3 жыл бұрын

no you are not the only one

@toekneelorenzo2942 2 жыл бұрын

God bless u

@reginabieg2287 Жыл бұрын

You need more help! Please try to find out if the county offers income care providers free to the person needing help. They evaluate the need and set a number of hours per day. Between that help, and hospice you will be less caregiver and more just family. If there is any money avail for even more caregiver care, find a kind experienced cna. The cna can make life very much less stressful and take over a lot of the care for a few hours a day or night. Giving the family time to rest, heal, be at their own home! You need more help!!!

@Delguerrero 4 жыл бұрын

After watching this , I think that its wonderful that this organization would comfort people in the last moments of their lives however, I wonder what degree of hospice is really available for someone that is not of the caucasian persuasion.

@JoshuaKevinPerry Жыл бұрын

Medicare pays the hospice company, so race is irrelevant.

@reginabieg2287 Жыл бұрын

Have you asked? This is a caring org and I truly believe open to all needing compassionate care at home or elsewhere.

@michelleduncan9965 Жыл бұрын

As a nurse, I've wondered that same thing several times Del.

@sidewinderombre 4 жыл бұрын

We try to make them as comfortable as possible with morphine, while we starve and dehydrate them to death. It's a really loving experience.

@glasshalffull8625 3 жыл бұрын

That’s one reason to have an attorney do an Advanced Medical Directive. Mine, my wife and my mother’s “explicitly” states to provide hydration and nourishment as well as pain control medication.

@SandfordSmythe 9 ай бұрын

@@glasshalffull8625 Dehydration and starving is part of the natural process of dying. It is not painful. Death can be hard to accept. Mandating IV nourishment and fluids would problem exclude you from hospice program.

@vickychen4587 4 жыл бұрын

What about social, psychological, mental or spiritual pain for the family and the dying?

@carolkristian1146 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know. All I get is a shed load of morphine. I guess it's so I don't complain!

@SandfordSmythe 9 ай бұрын

Part of Hospce care

@7.62Ak 6 жыл бұрын

My mom just passed away at hospice. She was only there about twelve hours

@lindawomack4938 2 жыл бұрын

My boyfriend has sage 4 cancer and because he has a feeding tube he is not able to come home. I'm wheelchair bound and blind so I'm not able to care for him alone I live in ny.

@tyriedle2658 3 ай бұрын

8 hear mean and hatefull voices everyday. They never go away never.

@lyndaolsen2567 4 жыл бұрын

Just lost my mother to this nightmare. It was a horrific tramatizing experience. My mother suffered terribly. We had no idea what we were getting into. Trusted the doctors. It's a great way for doctors to cover up their incompetence and heartlessness. What a mistake. I am left with nightmares of how my mother passed and her suffering that I helped cause through ignorance. I would never recommend this route to anyone. There was no comfort or care and my sister and I were left by ourselves not knowing what was happening. My mother may be alive today if I had known better.

@monicanicoleleeify 2 жыл бұрын

I think modern day jack Kerkorian

@JoshuaKevinPerry Жыл бұрын

In terms of having medications covered, you're better off being a frequent flyer at a hospital than using hospice care. Things often covered by Medicare are no longer covered-insulin, other antidiabetic meds, plavix, statins, most pain medications, most antihypertensives. Meanwhile, the company is gathering $100-$200 daily, per patient, from the Federal Budget. There's a reason it's a 3rd of the medical costs in the country while doing everything possible to end medical care.