The Goal of cavcare.com is to provide support, assistance, and health care instruction on
the unique care issues and challenges aging patients and their caregivers face.
This site is maintained by Kelly The Nurse. Kelly has been a registered nurse for over twenty years. Her clinical experience includes several years working in hospitals in medical-surgical, oncology and rehabilitation nursing units. She has owned and operated a small nursing home and has spent the last five years working as a home health and hospice nurse.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Home Health and Hospice?
Both Home Health and Hospice service can be covered by medicare if criteria is reached and both programs are under the direct care of a physician. Generally speaking, Home Health services are the better choice to manage a patient where improvement or healing is expected. Home Health patients are expected to recover or get better. An example is a person receiving active treatment such as chemo, who need nursing or therapy service.
Many times frightening and often misunderstood, Hospice services are appropriate to manage any disease when the patient has decided to forgo active treatment. Simply put, the goal of Hospice is comfort and the management of symptoms. There is no six month limit for Hospice.
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