What does hospice entail? Is it something you and your family might consider during end-of-life care?
Welcome, everyone. I'm Dr. John Whyte. I'm the Chief Medical Officer at WebMD. If you were diagnosed with a terminal illness, have you thought about and discussed with your family how much care you'd like to receive? What type of care you want? And where you would want that delivered, whether you want it at home or in a hospital? And have you thought about hospice? If you're like most people, you probably haven't.
So it's a really comprehensive care delivery model. But it's very misunderstood, because people think it's a place to go.Well, certainly, it's in a way two-pronged. We're focused on raising awareness to-- this sounds strange-- but too medical personnel, to doctors, who are a major referral service or source, I should say, of explaining to patients and their families that hospice may be the best option for them at some point.
So that really started, I think, the hospice activities in the United States way back then, although it was not called hospice then. So that was what our organization was doing for decades and decades. And we had an inpatient hospice within a building that had a nursing home, long-term care, and rehab. And so we were-- and we also had dementia care.
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