Hospice at home services aim to enable patients with advanced illness to be cared for at home, and to die at home if that is their preference. Care may be provided to prevent admission to, or facilitate discharge from, inpatient care for crisis management or for longer periods of care.

This beautiful article written by The New York Times shares an at-home hospice experience and how valuable time and days were spent in the last of days.

My Grandmother’s Last Days Were in Our Living Room

The small blessing of quarantine is that we were all together.

My grandmother died early Tuesday morning, after declining for weeks. It wasn’t the coronavirus, but our response was shaped by it. Hospice facilities across the country are each setting their own policies to prevent the spread of the virus, and at the ones we called near my parents’ home in New Hampshire, no one, not even my grandfather, would have been allowed to see her. Zoom and FaceTime visits wouldn’t have been enough. So, as I imagine many other families have in recent weeks, we chose to bring her home.

Once a day a nurse came to help. The rest of the time my grandfather, my parents and my siblings and I muddled through it. The small blessing of quarantine is that we were all at home. We weren’t going anywhere: We couldn’t and we didn’t want to. I brushed her hair, I massaged her feet, I washed her nightgowns and sponged her lips with water. I did my best to keep showing up. Read the full article here.