First Time Visitors
To counselors
What do I do now? Often, this is a question you get from clients or patients. They have just received a life-limiting diagnosis and seek your advice to help make appropriate choices for end-of-life care.
As part of our ongoing educational program to expand understanding of hospice care in your community, we will be encouraging them to ask you these questions.
- Have you worked with others who had this disease?
- How much should loved ones be told about the prognosis of this disease?
- Are there support groups you can recommend?
- What advice can you offer about how best to cope with my emotions?
- What's the best way to tell children about this?
- If you were in our situation, who would you want to take care of you?
- What's your experience with hospice care?
- Why would we choose hospice?
- Which local hospice providers do you recommend, and why?
- Patients and their families
- Hospitals, nursing homes, and care facility administrators
- Insurance agents and case managers
- Doctors
- Nurses
- Counselors
- Therapists
- The clergy
- Lawyers
- Accountants
- Pharmacists
- Civic leaders
