Hospice Program
Hospice provides palliative care in a person's home. It consists of medical, social and support services to a terminally ill person, when curative treatment is no longer possible.
What services are provided?
- Bereavement counseling
- Counseling services
- Drugs and biologicals
- General inpatient care (short-term)
- Home health aide services
- Homemaker services
- Household services
- Medical appliances and supplies
- Medical social services
- Nursing care services
- Occupational therapy
- Physical therapy
- Physician services
- Respite care
- Speech language pathology
- Volunteer services
Who can get services?
- You must be eligible for Medicaid.
- If you are 21 or older, you must not accept any Medicaid services — other than hospice services — related to your terminal illness.
- You must have a physician's prognosis of six months or less to live if the terminal illness runs its normal course.
How do I apply for services?
Contact your local Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services office.
Updated: November 6, 2012