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Hospice services to enhance your residents' quality of life

Support for Facilities

Hospice services help your residents.

  • Diagnosis-centric and support progams for personalized care
  • Call Us First 24/7/365 access to our hospice team for support with physical, mental and spiritual needs, and to avoid hospitalization
  • By Your Side specialized service to provide added support at the bedside when patients need us most

Hospice services help you.

  • Designated Account Executive for priority support
  • Easy referral process and ongoing access to our team
  • A cost effective way to keep your residents at home in their community

 

Elara Caring is a great company that goes above and beyond. We are thankful that we have formed a partnership with Elara to assist our residents because they provide great service and most importantly great care. Elara has elevated the level of quality care received by our residents.

Alisha M., Executive Director - Park Creek Independent Living

Look and Listen for the Silent Transition

If you observe any of the following, your resident may be beginning their silent transition from chronic illness to end of life:

  • Increased hospitalizations over the past year
  • Recent serious lower respiratory infections such as COVID-19, influenza, or RSV
  • Recent or progressive weight loss/gain
  • Difficulty swallowing
  • Changes in comprehension
  • Requires more assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs)
  • Increased incontinence
  • Decrease in stamina
  • Increased edema
  • Increased shortness of breath with/without activity (oxygen dependency)
  • Decrease in communication
  • Increase in disorientation or confusion
  • Withdrawal from family and friends
  • Decrease in appetite
  • Less likely to smile
  • Taking nine or more daily medications
  • Increased number of infections
  • No longer making progress
  • Increased number of wounds
  • Wounds do not heal properly
  • Physicians’ office visits are missed

If you have checked one or more of the symptoms listed above, your resident could be entering end of life and in need of hospice care. Elara Caring will assess your resident with hospice eligibility, enhancing their existing care with the following:

  • Physician services and nurse practitioners
  • Registered nurses
  • Medical social workers
  • Spiritual and bereavement counseling
  • Nurse aides
  • Hospice care programs

Provider Resources

We can help support your patients wherever they are in their health care journey. Check out our hospice provider resources.

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Contact your local Elara Caring branch for more information on hospice and how we can help your patients.

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