By Allie Weiner | Administrative Assistant, Cedar Village Foundation
Last month our Hospice Team escorted two patients to the movie theater see “The Jungle Book”. Reflecting on that trip, one of our Hospice Team members writes, “People often see Hospice as the last stop on life’s long and sometimes bumpy road, but I see Hospice as an opportunity to allow a patient to LIVE. Taking patients to see a movie, allowing our patients to live out the rest of days with dignity and comfort. We are not here to take life, but to give life while life is left”. The Hospice team at Cedar Village takes every opportunity to enhance the lives of our patients.
Through individualized care and a whole person approach, the Cedar Village Hospice program enriches the lives of patients and ensures the comfort and security of their family members. Patients and families develop a strong bond with their caregivers throughout the palliative care process. Palliative care focuses on quality of life and well being for terminally ill patients, meeting their physical, emotional, spiritual, and social needs. Services are administered by an interdisciplinary team of professionals providing comfort without aggressive treatment.
Patients, families and caregivers are involved in the decision-making process and participate in their plan of care to relieve suffering and provide the best possible quality of care for patients and their families
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