Hospice is much more than most people realize. Learn about this compassionate care program for people at the end of this life\'s journey

1. The purpose of hospice
is to provide comfort
at the end of one's life.
Together, our volunteers and staff strive
to make life as
comfortable as possible
to the last moment.

2. WHAT IS HOSPICE?
 Hospice is primarily a concept of care,
not a specific place of care.
 Hospice emphasizes palliative rather
than curative treatment; quality rather
than quantity of life. The dying are
comforted. Professional medical care is
given, and sophisticated symptom relief
provided. The patient and family are
both included in the care plan and
emotional, spiritual and practical support
is given based on the patient’s wishes
and family’s needs. Trained volunteers
can offer respite care for family
members as well as meaningful support
to the patient.

3. WHAT IS HOSPICE?
 Hospice affirms life and regards dying as a normal
process. Hospice neither hastens nor postpones
death. Hospice provides personalized services and
a caring community so that patients and families
can attain the necessary preparation for a death
that is satisfactory to them.

4. ABOUT
 AseraCare Hospice is part of Golden
Living, one of the nation’s premiere
providers of health care services for the
aging.
 AseraCare Hospice offers a full range of hospice and
palliative care services for terminally ill patients,
including medical care, nursing care, social worker
counseling, volunteer services, spiritual support,
physical, occupational and speech therapy, personal
care assistance, nutrition counseling and bereavement
counseling.
 Our primary goal is to make each patient comfortable,
enabling them to continue an alert, pain-free life and to
assure a patient’s last days may be spent with dignity,
supported by their loved ones and our caring staff.

5. ABOUT ASERACARE HOSPICE
 Accreditations
 Community Health Accreditation
Program, Inc. (CHAP) – The leader in
improving the quality of community-based
healthcare services in the U.S. CHAP’s
provides healthcare consultation services to
facilities, as well as a broad network of
professional staff resources. AseraCare
Hospice is CHAP accredited as a whole and
is working towards deemed status for all
individual agency locations. The Valparaiso
office of AseraCare Hospice is the ONLY
hospice in northern Indiana to receive the
CHAP accreditation.


6. ASERACARE HOSPICE DIFFERENCE
 Quick referral time
 After a hospice referral is made to us,
we typically admit the patient that same
day or within 24 hours.
 Daily contact with patients
 Our staff is in daily contact with all home
patients, either by scheduled nursing
visits or by phone calls to patients not
receiving visits that day.
 We strive to be present at the end
of every hospice journey
 At AseraCare we treat our patients like
family. It is a priority that we make every
effort to be there to see them and their
families through this difficult passage.

7. HOSPICE SUPPORT SERVICES
 At AseraCare, our hospice and
palliative care is provided by a
medically supervised
interdisciplinary team of
professionals and volunteers.
The types of support services
we provide vary from patient to
patient. Our objective is to
reduce the stress and pressure
on the patient and their family to
allow them to make the most of
their time together.

8. HOSPICE SUPPORT SERVICES
 Nursing care and other skilled care services
 Social worker counseling
 Spiritual support
 Nutrition counseling
 Personal care assistance
 Bereavement counseling

9. HOSPICE CARE SETTINGS
 AseraCare Hospice offers hospice services in a
variety of locations – patients’ homes, hospitals,
nursing homes and assisted living facilities. We
believe it is important for hospice patients and their
families to be in comfortable and familiar settings,
wherever they choose to receive their care.

10. HOSPICE CARE SETTINGS
Home
Nursing home
Assisted living

11. If you have questions about hospice
services or about AseraCare Hospice:
Please call us at 866-902-8892 or visit
www.aseracare.com.
Our regional office provides service in
Lake, Porter, Starke, LaPorte, St.
Joseph and Elkhart counties at
present.