November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month!
Let’s test our knowledge and learn together!
True or False:
- Hospice is a 24/7 service.
- Hospice is only for 6 months even if you continue to live beyond that time frame.
- Hospice is only for cancer patients.
- Hospice services are paid for by health insurance.
- Hospice services include comfort and grief support for families after the patient dies.
- Hospice can be provided in nursing homes.
- Hospice is only appropriate if the person only has a few days to live.
- Patients on hospice cannot receive care from spouses, partners, children or other loved ones.
- Hospice helps by speeding up the dying process.
- Hospice cannot be provided in the home.
- Only persons older than 65 can receive hospice.
- Anyone can make a referral to hospice.
- Hospice provides medications, treatments, medical equipment and supplies that are related to the patient’s illness that is causing the need for services.
- Hospice ends when the patient dies.
- Hospice care is available to any individual expected to live 6 months or less.
- People who live alone are able to receive hospice.
- Hospice is designed to treat the emotional needs of the dying individual and their family.
- Dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, cannot have hospice.
- While on hospice, individuals can receive treatment such as chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery to cure the illness causing the need for services.
- Individuals on hospice cannot be taken to the hospital.
- Hospice care focuses on managing pain and symptoms.
- Hospice is for the caregivers, family, and friends, as well as, the patient.
- The Hospice team is a physician, nurses, social workers, and chaplains.
- Hospice is a minimum of 12 hours of daily bedside care provided by the clinicians.
Here are the answers:
- True
- False
- False
- True
- True
- True
- False
- False
- False
- False
- False
- True
- True
- False
- True
- True
- True
- False
- False
- False
- True
- True
- True
- False
Explanations will be in next week’s blog…stay tuned!
