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Personalized Hospice Care Plans By Condition

The experience of a person diagnosed with cancer or heart disease is very different from that of an Alzheimer’s patient or someone with a pulmonary condition. At VITAS, we tailor our hospice plan of care—both clinical care and our support services—to meet the unique symptoms and social and emotional needs that can accompany each specific condition or illness.

ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)

When ALS patients & their loved ones are dealing with the significant effects of this terminal illness, VITAS can help.
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Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

Hospice serves those in the end stages of dementia, relieving pain, controlling symptoms, improving quality of life and reducing anxiety and worry for patients and their families.
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Cancer

Hospice doesn’t always add more days to a cancer patient’s life, but it can add quality of life to the final months, weeks and days. When is the right time for hospice?
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Heart Disease

Hospice helps patients and their families deal with the significant impact of heart disease after curative treatment has stopped.
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HIV/AIDS

The VITAS mission is to serve those in the end stages of HIV/AIDS, to relieve pain, control symptoms, improve quality of life and reduce anxiety for patients and their loved ones. 
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Kidney Failure

Your search for comfort, support and answers does not stop when you choose to forgo dialysis. Reducing or discontinuing medical support affects the whole family. That’s when VITAS can help. 
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Liver Disease

Look for these common signs that the disease has progressed to a point where all involved would likely benefit from hospice services, and learn how VITAS can help.
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Lung Cancer

Hospice can support patients dealing with the effects of stage 4 lung cancer. Learn more about what to expect if your loved one is experiencing end-stage lung cancer.
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Lung Disease & COPD

Reducing or discontinuing curative care for lung disease or COPD affects the whole family. That's when VITAS can help.
A VITAS team member helps a patient with his oxygen mask as he sits up in bed

Neurological Diseases

When improvement is unlikely and a decision is made to discontinue the use of a feeding tube or breathing machine, hospice care for neurological diseases is likely to benefit the patient and family.
A man using a wheelchair on an outside path receives help from a VITAS team member

Pediatric

With pediatric hospice at VITAS, the parents take the lead in determining the plan of care in collaboration with their physician. Care is focused on the family and the patient.
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Sepsis

As soon as sepsis is diagnosed, it should be brought to the immediate attention of hospice admissions personnel, because that's when VITAS can help.
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How VITAS Can Help

With 40 years of leadership in hospice and palliative care, VITAS offers:

  • personalized care plans by patient's diagnosis
  • interdisciplinary care teams
  • therapy, emotional and pastoral support
  • grief and bereavement services

Call VITAS to learn how we can help you.

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