A closer look at hospice care

At its core, hospice care is about providing support…for your loved one, for your family, and also for your care team. Mo Cara Hospice’s holistic approach ensures that every individual on this journey together feels supported with knowledge, resources, and the highest measures of comfort care.

Focused on physical comfort

When entering hospice care, the patient or their Health Care Power of Attorney (POA) representative, along with their physician and the Mo Cara team, mutually agree that the patient’s diagnosis indicates curative treatments are no longer appropriate or beneficial.

This includes ending stressful and frequent Emergency Room visits and hospital stays, therapies and medications not integral in providing comfort.

Addressing emotional needs

Emotional well-being goes hand in hand with physical comfort. To this end, Mo Cara families are asked to share those personal items, daily activities, or special requests known to lift their loved one’s spirits.  From enjoying music to aromatherapy, crafting, reading, journaling, praying, or simply reminiscing together…if it brightens their day, we will find a way to ensure this very important personal level of care is offered.

With an effective combination of physical and emotional support, hospice care has the power to provide peace, closure, relief, and so much more.  Beginning with no-charge initial consultations, through regularly scheduled visits, and ending with as-needed, on-call services 24/7/365, Mo Cara is here for you, whenever we are needed.  For as long as we are needed.

Hospice care focuses on the comfort of one who is nearing the end of life. A physician must certify that life expectancy is six months or less; however, hospice can continue longer with ongoing monitoring and recertification.

Mo Cara Hospice provides relief from the symptoms of living with a serious illness as one approaches the end of life with the goal of improving the quality of life.