Describe Home Health and Hospice Care for Mesothelioma Patients

Home health and hospice care is usually inevitable with this diagnosis at some point or another. Home Health is when a patient is in the hospital, especially more of a mesothelioma lung cancer patient, a lot of times, example, have pleural effusions, so they'll have a drain in their chest. When they come home, a lot of times they need skilled nursing, HomeHealth will come in handy in that sense. So they have an aid or an RN or an LPN, whatever it is, come in and out They are able to help the family to care for them, whether it's the drains, whether it's just to make sure they're okay. So home health is curative. So in the sense is something that they will eventually wean off. Whether they wean off in a positive way, you know, or declines, that's when the hospice will come into play. If it is a declining, then it would go hospice. So hospice can be either in home in a facility, whatever it goes. But hospice is when a person usually is given about six months, two doctors have to make the staff noses together and write the script. So once they decide that, they will usually recommend hospice care. So that is if no treatment is available, for them, meaning it's not an option any longer, or the patient just chose no treatment. They don't wanna take that route. Hospice is comfort care. That will make them comfortable. It'll make sure that they are taken care of from beginning to end, whether it's slowly coming in, whether it's twenty four hour care, you know, it will go as the patient goes. So they're gonna follow the patient's lead on that.