Best Practices – Provider

Practice
Providers, WSC, and Individuals/Families have increasingly utilized Hospice resources for people who wish to remain in their homes toward the end of their lives. Additional social work, nursing, CNA, grief counseling, and personal care services can be provided in the person’s home whether the situation is supported living, group home, individual, or family home. This empowers an individual to resist being sent to a nursing home or rehab center against her/his will.

Who Benefits? How?
Persons served, Provider, Family/Loved ones, WSC, APD
Persons served benefit by influencing direction over their own healthcare during the end of life while continuing to receive support coordination services. Persons served also benefit from having important people in their lives surrounding them at a difficult time when social support is crucial. Providers benefit by having additional support outside the DD Medicaid Waiver funding stream and access to grief counseling as needed or desired. Loved ones and housemates benefit by having access to grief counseling and the respect of participating in real life situations. WSC benefits by continuing to provide support coordination services to the individual during a crucial time in the person’s life. APD benefits by sharing the funding with other entities including Medicare and private insurance.