• Supports you and your family as you live at the end of life.
• Provides care in your home under the direction of a medical team.
• Helps keep pain and other distressing symptoms managed.
• Provides emotional support to your family before and after your death.

• Your primary care physician has indicated you have an illness with a life expectancy of months rather than years.
• You are ready for comfort or palliative care and want no further invasive treatments.
• You have a primary caregiver available to you, are willing to discuss caregiving options, or are a resident of a long term care facility.

• Medical care coordination with your physician.
• Nursing care including personal care if needed.
• Medication, medical supplies and equipment.
• Counseling for you and your family members.
• Volunteer services.
• Bereavement services.

• Talk with your discharge planner or primary care physician.
• Check your local yellow pages or call 1-888-202-5433.
• Locate the Hospices serving your county on the www.LIFEproject.org web site.

• Medicare and Medicaid offer comprehensive coverage under a special benefit.
• Private insurance may cover hospice care - Hospice staff can check with your provider.
• Occasionally, a family will choose to pay for hospice care.

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