Choosing Hospice

The choice to pursue hospice care is generally a choice to move away from aggressive, curative treatment to focus on palliative or comfort-based care.

Hospice care alleviates symptoms and provides emotional support, pain control, and peace of mind for patients and families by focusing on each individual's unique requests and requirements.

Hospice Empowers Patients
The word "hospice" means "a place of shelter for travelers." For people facing the end-of-life journey, it's a fitting description. Often, patients enroll in Seacoast Hospice having undergone numerous invasive, usually exhausting, disease-fighting treatments. Once in hospice care, we make our patients as comfortable and as pain-free as possible and help focus on the joys in life that may have been pushed aside during the disease-fighting time.

Pain Control Options
Seacoast Hospice also offers patients alternatives to traditional pain control medicines. People have used alternative methods to help ease pain and promote healing for thousands of years. These therapies don't involve taking medicines, but instead offer different techniques such as massage, relaxation exercises, yoga, art and music therapy, and Reiki to help alleviate symptoms. We offer many options but whatever you choose, your program is individualized to work expressly for you. Complementary therapies can also be used in conjunction with traditional medicines.