Hospice Care

Discuss a long term care topic of your choice (i.e. services provided, current trends, long term care users, staffing, etc.). Provide your personal thoughts and opinions on the topic discussed.Additionally, locate a peer-reviewed journal article on the same topic. Summarize the article and comment on how it either supports of challenges your opinions

Hospice care centers offer a specializedprogram that provides prime health care for those who are at the end of their lives. It is given to those who have diagnosed with a terminal condition, or to those who are just naturally at the end oftheir lives. A terminal disease is an active condition that worsens and that cannot be cured, thus causing death. The comforting care that hospices give their patients can also help a person that isagonizing to feel accepting of death and to be free of pain at the time of their death. This program can also include the patient’s family, friends, and other doctors. The hospice’s main focuses arepreventing and palliating pain and suffering (Hospice care definition). Through these, the main goal is to make the end stage of people as comfortable as possible while prolonging the time thepatients have remaining. The hospice just supports life; it doesn’t accelerate or delay death. It tries to grant patients the best quality of life in the physical, emotional, psychological, social andspiritual aspects. This kind of care can be given at home, within hospitals, or at independent facilities specialized in hospice care.
Even though hospice care centers offer patients everything they needto have a comfortable death, I can’t help but think that the patients are subject to negligence just as they would when they are put in nursing homes. I know it sounds very negative, but what kind ofmotivation would the health care providers have in managing these patients if they are going to die anyways. I feel like the “palliative” care that they talk about is just a means of putting as...