Assisted Home Hospice is a Medicare certified hospice program providing compassionate, comprehensive care to terminally ill patients in their home.

A person is eligible for home hospice when life expectancy is six months or less if the disease follows its normal course.

Home hospice care means the terminally ill patient is no longer seeking active treatment for their disease. Comfort and pain management are the primary concern. Home hospice care enables the patient and their family to continue life as normally as possible.

The person who is dying has the right to the highest possible quality of life in a manner that is consistent with the individual's life-style and value system.

Hospice care would allow the patient to die peacefully and with diginity. Medicare and most health insurance compaies provide for home hospice care.

A patient can elect the hospice benefit wherever they reside:

The Hospice Team Approach to Patient Care

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Patients can remain in the home hospice program as long as their doctor re-certifies that they are terminally ill. Sometimes, a terminally ill patient's health actually improves while on hospice, or their disease goes into remission, or they may decide to return to curative treatment.

If that happens, their physician may feel that they no longer need hospice care and they won't re-certify their hospice eligibility. A patient can return to the home hospice program, however, at any time their health condition qualifies them for hospice care.

Assisted provides home hospice care in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties in Southern California. Call 800-949-6555 to discuss if home hospice care is the right option for you.