Who writes this, why, and what it will never say
A reference desk for the family covering the hours between hospice visits, published by OwnersFirm.
This site is supported by New Plan Care, a St. Louis in-home care company.
Hospice at Home Help is a small reference desk for one reader at one moment: the daughter, son or spouse in the St. Louis area who is keeping a parent at home on hospice and has discovered that the visits are a few hours a week and the rest is theirs.
Who publishes it
OwnersFirm, a St. Louis company, publishes this site. Nobody on it is a clinician. The pages are written by an editorial desk, not by a named nurse or doctor, and are signed that way so no reader mistakes them for medical guidance. Where a page touches anything clinical, it quotes a public source in that source's own words and sends the question to the hospice nurse or the physician.
Why it exists
Search for whether hospice provides 24 hour care at home and you get a wall of near-identical answers, most from hospices themselves, all confirming the same gap: routine hospice is a visit schedule, and the family covers everything else. Almost nobody writes for the family covering that gap in west county. This site does. Its one device is the day drawn out over the clock, because seeing the hours is the first honest step toward sharing them.
What it will never say
- What a symptom means, what a medicine should be, or whether a change is normal for your mother. That is the hospice nurse's.
- An hourly price for anyone's care.
- That one hospice, hospital or company is better than another.
- A statistic, quote, review or family it cannot source. Every number links to its public page, listed with its check date on the sources page.
Who supports this site, disclosed
The two companies are not commonly owned. The slot appears on the front page and, labelled, after each read. The full method is on how we write.