True Care Hospice has expanded their services to include spiritual counselors from all faiths to help people come to terms with terminal illness, and find peace and fulfillment in their remaining days.
San Francisco, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/27/2015 -- In Los Angeles, True Care Hospice go a step further in helping the patients they care for. Far from just tending to their medical needs, the staff at True Care provides a personalized kind of care that focuses on giving people back their dignity, and maximizing the quality of the time they have left. True Care has just instigated a program of religious and spiritual pastoral care to attend to patient's esoteric needs.
True Care Hospice's new spiritual guidance services will be provided to people of all faiths by ministers, priests, imams and other religious heads to help people come to terms with the finality of terminal illness while resolving to find the beauty and love present in the days ahead. These services are designed to provide person-centered, case-specific pastoral care.
The new service is just one of the many ways in which True Care Hospice provide a holistic support service for individuals who are terminally ill, as well as their friends and family. Whether it's a dietician to ensure patients keep their strength up, a social worker to keep their morale high or volunteers to play fun activities with them, True Care go a step further every time.
A spokesperson for True Care Hospice explained, "We felt it was of the utmost important that we made contact with the full range of religious leaders in the Los Angeles area in order to be able to provide comfort, solace and spiritual wisdom to our patients at a time that may be the most difficult of their lives. Understanding the transient nature of death and affirming the cultural beliefs of the patient in difficult times has been found to greatly improve their mood and outlook, so we felt it was important that all our patients have equal access to such kindness."
About True Care Hospice
True Care Hospice of Los Angeles provides in home hospice and palliative care for terminally ill patients, family, and friends to navigate the final stages of a terminal illness. Their Los Angeles Hospice Care upholds dignity and focuses on quality of life for those that choose to die in their home or familiar surroundings accompanied by those they love. They can provide Hospice care at home in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. For more information please visit: http://truecarehospice.com/