The Big Bend Hospice (BBH) provides end-of-life services in the Big Bend counties in Tallahassee Florida. Services are provided in the home, nursing home, and assisted living facility. Its mission is to provide compassionate care to individuals with life-limiting illness, comfort to their families and emotional support to anyone who has lost a loved one. It aims to provide clients with comfort while managing pain and symptoms as determined by two physicians. The physicians must determine that there is no cure. The services provided by Hospice are emotional support, medical services and spiritual resources for people who are in their last stage of a serious illness. Family members are not forgotten as services are provided to them for managing practical details and emotional challenges of caring for someone who is dying. The loved one that comes to Hospice is usually within the life expectancy of 6 months.
BBH uses a team approach to provide professional services to provide individualized care to the client. The health care team includes attending physician, the registered nurse, hospice aides, social workers, the hospice chaplain, music therapist, trained volunteers and
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The occupational therapist considers the physical and psychosocial/behavioral health needs of clients. Some of the areas a community based occupational therapist can provide would be Activities of Daily Living to include dress through the use of adaptive equipment, modified techniques, energy conservation, proper mechanics and energy conservation to name a few. Other areas for ADL retraining would include use of specialized or adaptive equipment to maximize safety. This will be done when while incorporating fall prevention strategies to foster awareness of safety and limitations in the