Research shows that most people would prefer to spend their final days at home, free of pain and surrounded by the people they love. Today it is possible to get the needed support at home through hospice care.

Focus Care Hospice focuses on promoting comfort and self-determination, so that patients can participate in making decisions about care at the end of their lives. Families are closely involved in decision-making, and hospice provides counseling, education, short-term respite care, and bereavement support for those close to the patient.

Hospice services can be provided in the home, in a nursing home, in an assisted living facility or occasionally in the hospital.