• Practical and emotional support following diagnosis of a life-threatening illness
• Specialist palliative care team
• Palliative care nurses on call 24 hours every day
• Management of pain and symptoms
• Companionship and family support by trained volunteers
• Emotional and spiritual support
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is involved in hospice care?
Hospice builds on a family-centered team approach. The care-giving team includes a physician, nurse, social worker, home health aide, specially trained volunteers and a pastoral counselor. Together with the patient and family, they formulate a plan of care which includes medications for pain control, necessary medical equipment and comfort or support services as personal care, emotional support and homemaking services.
What if my family needs a break?
Respite care is available in the home on a limited basis and in the hospital for up to five days. Hospice acknowledges and supports the need for family members to take care of their own personal needs or to take a break from patient care activities.
Who pays for hospice care?
Volunteer services are also provided to patients. Most of the families opt to donate to Nishkam. In case, the patient is covered by medical insurance policy, the Insurance will pay the fixed amount on treatment.
Nishkam Sewa Ashram runs old-age home for elderly citizens, schools for street and slum children, special vocational projects for rural women, free hospitals and dispensaries for needy and poor patients, and home for Orphans and unwanted Children, Home for mentally challenged women and girls.