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Hospice - Compassionate Services For Patients And Their Families


By Ben Pate

It doesn't matter when the grief process begins. Whether you begin feeling the symptoms of grief after the loss of a loved one or even before, the process is a long and difficult one. Taking weeks and sometimes months the grieving process itself varies in terms of intensity and length and is different for each person in each culture. When grief strikes it's important to know that you have resources available to you and your family to help you deal with your grief and Home Care facilities can offer that. You and your family deserve that peace of mind.

The interpretation and emotional response to death can vary drastically from one culture to the next. In many cases the death of a loved one is accompanied by feelings of sorrow, loss, anger and regret. Regardless of how the grief manifests itself in the patient, it's a serious and difficult ordeal for any person to go through and should be treated with the utmost care.

When a person begins to feel grief overcoming them they may be inclined to push their emotions down and distract themselves with prior obligations or with caring for others within the family. When this happens and a person becomes too preoccupied to handle their own grief and emotions they may repress their feelings for a long period of time. In cases like these a person may need assistance handling their emotions in a safe and proactive way.

Sometimes a person may become overwhelmed by their grief. In extreme cases a person's grief may overcome their psyche and shut down their coping mechanisms that normally allow them to handle these emotions. In cases like these where a patient is no longer able to manage their own grief and sort their emotions the person may find that they are no longer able to operate through their daily routine and they begin to fall apart emotionally, now is when they need a Hospice Medicare to help.

In cases such as these a person may need the assistance of grief counseling. Luckily many hospice facilities have on-site grief counseling services to assist patient's families as they begin this difficult and trying ordeal. When looking for a hospice facility, prospective patients should always make it a point to find out if their particular facility offers grief counseling services to ensure their loved ones are taken care of.

In most cases, grief counseling consists of talking openly about a patient's feelings of grief and loss. During these discussions a patient will disclose and speak openly about their fears and frustrations as a way of sorting out their feelings. Exploring the patient's doubts and forcing them to understand the challenges and fears that they may be harboring is part of the guided healing process that grief counseling attempts to facilitate.

Some hospice facilities will also offer "grief therapy" which is very different from grief counseling. Grief therapy aims to address feelings of grief and depression with clinical tools designed to deal with grief and trauma. Grief therapy is most commonly recommended when a person is suffering behavioral or psychological stress they may need more intensive approaches to relief. Grief therapy may be necessary.

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