Hospice Care for Alzheimer’s disease and Dementia Patients

Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia, is seen in more than 4 million cases per year in the US. Not only do those stricken with this disease oftentimes not remember their spouses let alone their own children, but this terrible sickness is one that leaves the patient’s body relatively strong while deteriorating the mind, thus affecting everyone around them emotionally, physically, and economically for up to several years.

La Bella Vita Hospice specializes in cognitive impairments from Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, dementia, stroke, cancer, kidney disease, congestive heart failure, liver disease, respiratory disease, ALS, neurological disease, cardiac disease, adult failure to thrive, Huntington's disease.

Our hospice team implements special management strategies, tools and techniques, a variety of tailored therapies, and around-the-clock certified care to help the brain hold on to cognition and thrive. In addition, we also provide patient, family, and caregiver support, as well as grief and spiritual counseling. We provide in-home hospice care for patients in:

Hospice Care for Alzheimer’s disease and Dementia Patients

Our hospice team implements special management strategies, tools and techniques, a variety of tailored therapies, and around-the-clock certified care to help the brain hold on to cognition and thrive. In addition, we also provide patient, family, and caregiver support, as well as grief and spiritual counseling. We provide in-home hospice care for patients in:

• Los Angeles
• Ventura County
• Antelope Valley
• San Fernando Valley

How Much Does Hospice Care Cost?

Hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia patients may be fully covered and paid for outright by Medicare, Medicaid, and all other insurances, allowing your loved one to confront late-stage Alzheimer’s disease with dignity, respect, and compassion. In other words, you don’t pay a penny out of pocket. This professional service is also provided in the comfort of the patients’ home. There are many cost-effective benefits for a patient to remain in their home while living with Alzheimer’s disease:

• Hospital beds are limited and hospital stays are expensive; you can run up quite a bill just by staying in a bed for several days or weeks
• Not only do you save the expense of occupying a hospital bed for days or weeks, you avoid the often sterile, stressful environments of a hospital, with strangers always coming and going
• The advantage of staying in a hospital is immediate treatment, but since hospice patients have decided to cease curative treatment for their condition, this benefit is mostly unnecessary. What you lose in immediate access to treatment, you gain in the psychological comfort of your domestic surroundings.

Our full-service hospice care is a gift to every late-stage Alzheimer’s disease patient and their families. Our in-home hospice care is also a gift to Medicare and insurance companies as well, because the patient will not be repeatedly carried back and forth to the hospital for infections and the like, thus increasing expenses and use of limited resources.

Proven Approach

At La Bella Vita Hospice we believe that patient care is driven and tailored by the choices of patient, family, caregiver, and hospice team to promote and affirm respect and dignity at the end of life. We offer a variety of therapies such as:

• Music therapy
• Aroma therapy
• Healing touch
• Energy therapy
• Pet therapy
• Massage therapy
• And more...

Our hospice trained physicians are available for house calls when needed.

At the center of hospice is the belief that each of us has the right to die pain-free and with dignity, and that our loved ones will receive the necessary support to allow us to do so. The goal is to prevent and relieve suffering, to improve quality of life for individuals experiencing a serious, complex illness at the end of life.

How soon can my loved one be admitted?

Our hospice team will perform a specialized, individualized, and same-day in-home assessment, taking into consideration any specific care needs and tailor a Plan of Care centering on personal choices and needs.

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