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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, March 19,1981
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Hospice” - An Idea Whose Time Has Come
BY Sr. ELLEN McSORLEY, R.S.M.
“Hospice” is an old concept in human history and a
relatively new concept here in Atlanta. Most of us are able
to help people to be born and to get well, but most of us
do not know how to help people to die. This is hospice. It
is important to know one is not dying of cancer, or any
life-threatening illness, but that one is living with it! This
moment in human existence is not a countdown to death,
but the opportunity to live life as meaningfully as
possible; this period of inactivity after a patient and his or
her family learn there is little hope for improvement can
be a period of spiritual growth.
HOSPICE HISTORY
Hospice comes from the Latin and old French: guest,
host; able to be a host. . . from the hostility of trauma to
caring hospitality. In the sixth century, B.C., Buddha
ordered his physicians not to charge the poor and crippled
and to send them home with fruits, vegetables and money.
In the early Christian era most hospitals were influenced
by the mandate of Jesus: to love one another. During the
Medieval Crusades monks and nuns opened their
monasteries to weary travelers on their journey to the
Holy Land. Hospitality was offered for the night: warm
food, warm conversation and warm bedding. Today, with
the soaring costs of hospital care, more and more
Americans are choosing to become old-fashioned; that is,
to live and die at home where the closeness of family,
friends, familiar foods, objects and pets can be so
supportive.
What is the difference in the hospice concept and that
of the nursing home and hospital? The difference is
primarily in the goal. The essential purpose of a nursing
home is to maintain, or if possible, to improve the
condition of the patient. The goal of the hospital is to
cure. Different goals effect different styles of behaviour.
Hospitals function by enforcing regulations designed to
help the staff help patients get well; anything that might
interfere is restricted. Visitors, visiting hours, diet and
activities are carefully controlled. Patients are monitored,
tested, questioned, programmed; this requires a strict;
schedule. The hospice staff focuses on comfort care, not
necessarily get well measures. Tests are taken only if the
results will help make the patient more comfortable. No
visiting restrictions are imposed.
The hospice goal is for patients to be in control of their
own lives as much as possible. The powers of decision,
often quite limited in a hospital setting, are fully returned.
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Hospice holds the philosophy that dying is a reverential
and integral part of living. This time of living is to be
experienced with awareness and personal integrity for
patients and their families in the home or in a homelike
atmosphere. Hospice is a refuge against pain and isolation;
“Today, with the soaring costs of hospital care,
more and more Americans are choosing to
become old-fashioned; that is, to live and die at
home where the closeness of family, friends,
familiar foods, objects and pets can be so
supportive. ”
the challenge of hospice is to provide a human
environment where pain is minimized and patient-family
communication is maximized.
HOSPICE IN THE U S.
What is hospice in the United States? Nationally, it is a
nonprofit health care movement mjnistering to the
physical, psychological, spiritual, economic and social
needs of dying persons and family. Five current hospice
models are: wholly volunteer services in the home or
hospital, the free-standing institution, hospital-based
comfort care units, and the continuum of hospice care in
subacute facilities.
The backbone of hospice is volunteers! Extensive
training is given for volunteers to get in touch with their
own emotions so as to be effective in ministry. Hospice’s
hallmark is caring, flexible companionship with the
patient and family. Volunteers are made aware of many
community referral agencies: legal, financial, nursing and
domestic care. Volunteers offer delicate assistance to
parents with a dying child and to children with a parent
who is dying.
HOSPICE IN ATLANTA
The Atlanta community’s interest in hospice is growing.
Health care units of which I am aware are Georgia Baptist,
Good Shepherd, Grady, Kennestone, Northside, Saint
Joseph’s, South Fulton, Visiting Nurses’ Association and
Wesley Woods. I speak for Hospice Atlanta, Inc. which is
coordinated by a non-profit central autonomous
administration. The team consists of a medical director,
volunteer and home care coordinator, social workers and
consultants from various disciplines and trained
volunteers. Hospice Atlanta strives to be clinically
competent, ethically sound, psychologically helpful and
spiritually supportive. Current standards for hospice are
the consent of the dying persons, a life expectancy
determined in weeks and months, continued participation
of the primary physician and someone in the home to
supervise patient care. Hospice Atlanta serves people of all
socio-economic, cultural and religious backgrounds
without consideration of ability to pay.
“The hospice goal is for patients to be in
control of their own lives as much as possible.
The powers of decision . . . are fully returned.
Hospice holds the philosophy that dying is a
reverential and integral part of living. ”
Our Christian tradition offers the Parable of the Good
Samaritan, It is hard to be the wounded Jew for we all
prefer to be the Good Samaritan. However, the two are
inseparable: the helplessness of the one brings out the best
in the other. The parable never tells us whether the
wounded person was ever cured. LIFE IS THE GIVING
OF SYMBOLS AND DEATH IS THE GIVING OF SELF.
The home of Hospice Atlanta, Inc. is Saint Joseph’s
Hospital, 256-7271.
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