Home Health Aides

Each Aria Hospice home health aide and homemaker has successfully completed an approved training program in accordance with the state of California and Medicare requirements.

This training also includes training on providing hospice massages. Hospice massage acts as a natural treatment that can help the patient’s stress and anxiety to be reduced, allowing the patient to relax fully.

hospice home health aides

Aria Hospice Home Health Aides and Homemakers provide personal care for the hospice patient. The Hospice Aide provides care as determined by the medical team and according to the patient’s needs.  This care is part of the individualized Plan of Care and as such is supervised by the hospice Registered Nurse.  Typically, the Hospice Home Health Aide and Homemaker spends the most amount of time with the patient and the family.  The Hospice Aide provides personal care services to the patient in his or her home, assisting the patient with activities of daily living.

Aria Hospice Home Health Aides and Homemakers services include the following:

  • Bathing: shower, bed bath, tub bath, shower
  • Bedside care visits (listening, writing letters, reading)
  • Shaving and nail care
  • Assisting with minor home chores such as cleaning, doing laundry and providing company
  • Feeding and recording of percent of food consumed
  • Serving nourishment to the hospice patient
  • Assistance with ambulation
  • Assistance with or accompanying to activities
  • Range of Motion exercises
  • Massage, application of lotion to skin
  • Perineal care, incontinent care
  • Repositioning
  • Taking patient for walks
  • Grooming and dressing (care of hair, make-up)
  • Oral hygiene
  • Communication with family
  • Communication with nursing facility staff

We Listen. We Care. We Serve.

When you are faced with the challenge of finding a hospice provider to help care for the emotional and physical well being of someone you love, maybe your mom or dad, you will be faced with many questions.

Making the decision about hospice care for a loved one is never easy, but finding the right answers can help you feel more comfortable with the options available and confident in your final decision.

Aria Hospice operates hospice care programs throughout San Diego and Imperial Counties in Southern California. We pride ourselves on being one of the areas leading providers of end-of-life care.

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WHO CAN RECEIVE HOSPICE CARE?

Anyone diagnosed with a limited life expectancy can receive Aria Hospice care.

Once a physician certifies that an illness is terminal, (a life expectancy of six months or less), they will collaborate with the Aria Hospice team for services, tailored to the needs and wishes of the patient.

Many patients have cancer, but Aria Hospice cares for individuals with many other life-limiting illness, including heart and lung disease, kidney disease, neurological disorders, stroke, Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Family and friends also receive the benefit of hospice care, to help them support the patient and adapt to changes in their lives.

Many people mistakenly believe that all hospice patients are bed-bound, critically ill, and unable to continue living life to the fullest. Hospice celebrates life and supports you in achieving your individual needs in this chapter of your life.

Contact our Admission Coordinator at Aria Hospice in San Diego County or Imperial County with any questions you may have about hospice care or eligibility.

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WHY CHOOSE ARIA HOSPICE CARE?

After receiving a diagnosis for limited life expectancy, patients must make an important choice about goals for their treatment.

why choose aria hospice care

When a physician determines that there is no curative treatment for a particular illness, the treatment is not helping any longer or you decide that the side effects of treatment are too great, you may consider choosing comfort care as your ultimate goal.

Aggressive medical treatment focuses on curing the physical illness rather than satisfying the patient’s emotional and spiritual needs. It often requires intensive care in a clinical setting that can diminish quality of life. Hospice care has the focus of comfort, by relieving pain and other symptoms, while continuing to address emotional and spiritual needs of both the patient and family.

Hospice care neither prolongs life nor hastens death, but relieves pain and physical discomfort so that the patient can experience a more peaceful and satisfying quality of life. At Aria Hospice, care is designed to primarily take place in the home or place of residence. Many families tell us that they waited too long to take full advantage of all the benefits offered by hospice care.

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