Today’s conversation will explore how the Hospice journey starts for a patient. Reaching out to Hospice for additional support sooner means you and your family get support from nurses, home health aides, spiritual care staff, and social workers sooner.

Today’s episode is helping us understand more about the Palliative Care journey and the Advanced Illness Management (AIM) program here at Hospice of St. Lawrence Valley.

The Palliative Care journey is the perfect place to start because most people need support like our AIM program way before they need Hospice care.

AIM, Palliative Care, isn’t hospice? What’s the biggest difference?

AIM is not Hospice. There are quite a few differences but the biggest one is that people on AIM only need to have a chronic condition, they’re not in the terminal or end stages of their illness.

The Traveler's Guide to Life Podcast, presented by Hospice of St. Lawrence Valley, is back for the 7th season with 2 new hosts!

Join Kate and Skip as they explore end of life planning, palliative care, hospice care, death, dying, grief, and how to face it all with courage, compassion, and maybe even a laugh or two.

It's a journey we're all on...let's keep talking about it.

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