Families should consider hospice care when the focus turns from seeking a cure to seeking quality of days for the time that remains. It is important to realize hospice is not just for the last days of life. In fact, hospice works best when chosen early, allowing you and your family to benefit from the extra layer of care hospice brings. Here are some key benefits that hospice care provides:

1. Pain and symptom management: Roze Room ensures that your loved one is as comfortable as possible, addressing not only physical pain but also symptoms such as nausea, breathing difficulties, and fatigue.

2. Emotional and spiritual support: Roze Room teams include counselors, chaplains, and social workers who provide emotional and spiritual support to both your loved one and family.

3. Individualized plans of care: Our care is individualized according to your loved one’s needs and preferences. The care team works with the family to develop a plan that reflects your loved one’s wishes, values, and goals.

4. Emotional and psychological support: Our care supports families through what is often a highly emotional time, providing counseling and helping them cope with anticipatory grief.

5. Caregiver relief: Roze Room provides respite for family caregivers by sharing the caregiving responsibilities and offering breaks when needed.

6. Quality of life: Our care emphasizes your loved one’s comfort, dignity, and quality of life. It enables them to spend their days in a peaceful, supportive environment, surrounded by loved ones.

7. Multidisciplinary team: Roze Room provides a team of professionals—doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers—who work together to address the comprehensive needs of both your loved one and the family.

8. Reduced financial burden: Our care is often covered by Medicare, Medi-cal, and private insurance, reducing the financial burden on families.

9. Ability to stay at home: Our home-based care enables families to spend their final days in the comfort of their own home, surrounded by love ones.

 10. Reduced stress: Roze Room helps families focus on meaningful moments with their loved one, reducing stress and ensuring compassionate care at the end of life.

 So how do you know when it is time for hospice? Families should consider seeking hospice care when their medical team believes they have six months or less to live, assuming the disease follows its expected course. Hospice care is focused on providing comfort and improving quality of life, rather than pursuing curative treatments. Here are some examples of when your loved one would benefit from our care.

 1. Are you calling your loved one’s physician more often?

2. Does your loved one seem more stressed, anxious or depressed?

3. Are they sleeping more?

4. Are they spending more time in their favorite chair?

5. Have you noticed that they are losing weight?

6. Are their symptoms becoming more difficult to control?

7. Are you, as their caregiver, feeling more overwhelmed?

8. Are they frequently visiting the hospital or emergency room for complications?

9. Is controlling pain or symptoms becoming more difficult?

10. Is it becoming difficult to perform activities of daily living? (eating, dressing, bathing)

11. Do curative treatments seem to have no benefit, or have a negative effect?

12. Is your hope to simply have more good days than bad days?

 Our services are provided at any location your loved one calls home, whether it is an actual home, nursing facility, a board and care home, assisted living facility or at any other place of residence. Learn more at www.rozeroom.com or call (877) 783-0072.