Vet Futures asks if hospice care is coming to veterinary practice

RE: Vet Futures asks if hospice care is coming to veterinary practice

Lazy Bee — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 23:00:32 GMT

Hospice Care in a practice facility - NO!

Hospice/Palliative Care under overall supervision/control of a VS and a VN in the patients own home - YES!

However the costs if daily home visits were necessary could be beyond all but the most well off clients - and I'm not sure how our insurers would view such matters.

RE: Vet Futures asks if hospice care is coming to veterinary practice

Minnie — Thu, 14 May 2015 11:22:53 GMT

'In animal hospice it is the pet's owner who takes on all the financial, practical and emotional costs involved,.....' - I disagree with this statement. As a nurse I know that there can be a huge emotional cost to the nursing staff caring for a hospitalised patient which is end of life watching it die slowly by degrees according to the owners wishes.I respect owner wishes but is it fair on the animal?

RE: Vet Futures asks if hospice care is coming to veterinary practice

Hannah Wynne Richards — Thu, 14 May 2015 09:40:25 GMT

I'm all in favour of improved geriatric medicine, but hospice care seems to be done for the owner's sake, not the animals. To me,this is morally wrong.

Wynne