Helping Patients Plan Their Healthcare Future
Depending on the patient there are a variety of different ways to approach the appropriate care for them. Palliative care works at managing your patients pain and suffering while also managing their condition. Hospice care covers patients with a life expectancy of 6 or less months. It is covered by Medicare and does not manage their condition. The goal is to ease the patients remaining time and also cares for the patients loved ones that are left behind. Understanding which type of health care they wish to receive goes a long way to giving your patient the proper care and making their time in your health care facilities as comfortable as possible. An asset that patients can use to ease their time at your health care facility is the advance directive. An advance directive is a living will that states the desires of the patient in regards to their healthcare at the end of their life. Having an advance directive created is a great way to reduce stress for the patient and their loved ones. Another way to plan for end of life care is through the use of Practitioner Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment or POLST. POLST treats your patients end of life desire as a medical order so that the proper care is maintained until death. Whatever type of end of life care your patient and their loved ones decide on, the important idea is to plan for this inevitable life conclusion and to not be caught surprised by it. By taking these steps with your patient and their loved ones you can ensure a more comfortable end of life care facilitation.
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Written by Brandon Kassof
