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Identifying
The Embracing HospiceCare
Patient
- Difficulty breathing
- Frequent infections
- Cancer Diagnosis
- Increased edema (swelling)
- Frequent hospitalizations
- Uncontrolled or incresed pain
- Difficulty swallowing (dysphasia)
- Sudden or progressive weight loss
- Progressive renal insuffiency
- Patient and/or family having difficulty coping with terminal illness
- Change in mental status (withdrawn, confused, bed bound)
- Inability or unwillingness to take food by mouth
- Decline in function, with increased need for assistance with ADL's (Activities of Daily Living)
- Increased disease symptomatology in non-cancer diagnosis; Increase in episodes of CHF ( Congestive Heart Failure) in end stage cardiac patient, with decreased response to medical interventions
- Patient and family request no further aggressive therapies