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Frequently Asked Questions About Hospice Care
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Early hospice enrollment through VNANNJ provides patients and families with comprehensive multidisciplinary support that maximizes quality of life during final stages.
VNANNJ's hospice program transitions patients seamlessly from standard care to supportive palliative services using physicians, nurses, social workers and trained volunteers.
Increased hospice awareness creates more compassionate end-of-life experiences, reducing stress and discomfort for patients and families during life's final phase.
Hospice care actually extends and improves life's final months despite common misconceptions, with median enrollment lasting just 18 days nationally.
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Hospice care is significantly underutilized, with many qualified patients and their loved ones missing opportunities to receive meaningful, multidisciplinary hospice services despite it being available for over four decades.
It can be difficult for patients and loved ones to accept that life has entered its final phase, and even some physicians struggle with this reality, avoiding or delaying hospice referrals.
The median length of time spent in hospice care is just 18 days, and about 20% of patients are enrolled less than four days before they pass away, despite eligibility for six months or more of hospice in most cases.
Many people are unaware that hospice is a life-affirming service and its purpose is not to hasten death, and patients or their designated decision-makers can request hospice even if a doctor hesitates to make a referral.
Numerous studies have demonstrated that hospice care can improve and extend the final phase of life, and it provides meaningful, multidisciplinary services that reduce stress, discomfort, and inconvenience for patients and family caregivers.
The Visiting Nurse Association of Northern NJ (VNANNJ) provides hospice services through a team that includes physicians, nurses, certified home health aides, licensed social workers, chaplains, other professionals, and specially trained volunteers.
VNANNJ serves residents of Morris, Hunterdon, Sussex, and Warren Counties, currently serving residents of more than 140 municipalities in Northern New Jersey.
Full-service organizations like VNANNJ can seamlessly transition patients from standard care to supportive palliative care and hospice when necessary, providing continuity that greatly reduces stress and inconvenience for patients and family caregivers.
For more information or to arrange a free, no obligation consultation, visit vnannj.org or call 1-800-WE VISIT (1-800-938-4748).
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