Hospice is "Living to The Fullest"

…Pennyroyal Hospice serves five Western Kentucky counties (Christian, Lyon, Trigg, Caldwell, and Todd), promotes living life to the fullest, throughout its entirety.  With compassionate and purposeful end-of-life care hospice services, they proudly orchestrate the perfect conclusion experiences that allow patients and their families to live life well for as long as possible.

In other words, with this private provider, it's not about closing a book on a life of a loved one. It's about helping an them draft an amazingly awesome final chapter. Pennyroyal Hospice also faithfully provides continued assistance to the family or loved ones in the form of bereavement services, like grief support. This means that the entire support system for a patient is in fact supported through this KY service.

In many cases, moving into the last stages of a fatal illness takes a great deal of joy and control away from patients and their families. They can feel as if they are treading water with really no way of gaining ground during this scary and difficult time.

Thankfully, Western Kentucky provides a wonderfully unique approach to end-of-life care that provides nursing, physician care, and an entire support team, including volunteer helpers, that will minister to you or your loved one outside of the hospital and even take care of everyday tasks.

This type of physical aide is combined with an emotional focus, providing the patient and their families with guidance navigating spiritual needs and other issues that come up due to having to face the reality of a terminal illness, which is of course difficult. 

A huge aspect of this service is allowing patients to move beyond their physical needs and lack of control over their circumstances to help them meet essential or desired goals, even if it's something as simple as going fishing one last time.

The Best Fishing Video That Shows an Instance of Living Life to the Fullest

In this thought-provoking 30 second video message, Pennyroyal Hospice unravels the misconceptions surrounding the concept of hospice. Contrary to what many in western Kentucky believe, hospice is not solely about death or dying, but rather about living life to the fullest — until the very end. 

With a focus on maintaining dignity and quality of life, Pennyroyal Hospice relies on the same RELIEF Method™ they've become known for, for decades, to guide individuals as they navigate the final chapters of their journey.

Based on a real-world heartfelt story, this video shows the compassionate care provided by the hospice team through helping a hospice patient and his family experience what he loved to do: to take one more fishing trip with his grandson. This video exemplifies one case in which the actual activity or experience a patient wanted to accomplish before his time came was made a reality for him.

30 Seconds… This Sums it Up Nicely

Hospice isn't about closing the book. 

It's about getting some help to draft the final chapter.

While a patient's health might not be in their control, how to spend the rest of their time on earth is very much in their control. At the Pennyroyal Hospice of KY, we are happy to come alongside you and your loved ones and see what we can do to make your last goals a reality.

While physical limitations might be a consideration, we will do all we can to be available and help you write the best final chapter of your life that you can. While this might not look like going out and completing an activity or even visiting a location, which might be impossible due to your physical condition, it can include giving your information and helping you learn how to life your life well, all the way up to the end.

It might even include orchestrating contact between your mother/father and others before their time comes. Whatever the case may be, Pennyroyal has been up to the challenge for helping Pennyroyal patients achieve as many of their end-of-life goals as possible—even if that's just writing a few heartfelt letters as this can be a way to give you with a sense of control over the end of your life and allow you to orchestrate your own final chapter.

It's important to note that hospice isn't only about offering medical support and needed care for patients, but its also there to lend an empathetic ear to patients and their families, ensuring their emotional well-being during this challenging time… and to help a last dream or wish come true. 

Pennyroyal Hospice believes the patient and family should take the journey with guides who have been there before.   

Patient health is about more than pain-free comfort, but about bringing joy to the patient … and respite to the family (who often, find themselves in caregiver roles).

Are you on your own journey of finding out what hospice is truly about? You can always request our "Isn't Hospice Just Another Way to Say 'Death Sentence'? And 5 More Myths That Hold Back Western Kentucky Patients & Families from Experiencing RELIEF" right here: 

PennyroyalHospice.com/MYTHS

See if you know any of these 6 Myths.

Contact us today at our main office, or call or visit the office to learn more about our Hospice services at Pennyroyal Hospice in KY.