Holistic Care at End of Life

End of life care, such as hospice or palliative services, strives to improve an individual’s quality of life after a disease or condition becomes incurable. The services provide comfort even when there are no treatment options available to the patient.

Holistic services are integral to hospice care. Holistic Services address the comprehensive needs of patients and their families, enhancing quality of life during end-of-life care. These services include physical, emotional, social, and spiritual support, which are crucial for managing the complex challenges faced by terminally ill patients.

Holistic therapies, such as treatments like massage and music therapy, have been shown to relieve pain, reduce anxiety, and improve overall comfort at end of life. This approach not only benefits patients but also provides essential support to their families, helping them navigate the emotional and psychological aspects of caregiving and loss.

In partnership with Peaceful Hearts Hospice, our Foundation provides compassionate and complementary supportive holistic services to all hospice patients. Explore our care options below.

- Acupuncture
  Acupuncture is a complementary practice where small needles are inserted into a person’s skin to help balance energy. Acupuncture restores balance to both the mind and body, decreases pain, anxiety, and fatigue, and supports physical and emotional health.
- Aromatherapy
  Aromatherapy is the practice of using natural oils, which are extracted from bark, flowers, leaves, stems, roots or other parts of a plant, to improve physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being.
- Art Therapy
  Art Therapy is a method of self-expression using art to decrease anxiety and depression, relieve stress, and improve self-esteem and self-awareness.
- Bach Flower Remedies
  Bach Flower Remedies use wildflowers, plants, or trees to support a person’s personality and emotional well-being. Each flower essence corresponds to a specific emotion and promotes overall health.
- Body Memory Recall
  Body Memory Recall is a hands-on technique that supports the body in facilitating the release of accumulated stress, tension, and memory from past experiences, while also treating myofascial, structural, and energetic restrictions
- Chiropractic Care
  Chiropractic Care is the practice of performing adjustments (manipulations) to the spine or other parts of the body. By correcting alignment issues, a person’s natural ability to heal is supported and pain is reduced.
- Craniosacral Therapy
  Craniosacral Therapy is a hands-on technique that uses gentle touch to manipulate the cranium, spine, and pelvis to relieve restrictions in the craniosacral system. This process decreases pain and anxiety and improves the functioning of the central nervous system.
- Emotion Code/Body Code
  Emotion Code/Body Code is an energy balancing system that is utilized to discover the root cause of numerous symptoms, such as pain, anxiety, and distress.
- Emotional Freedom Technique
  Emotional Freedom Technique is a gentle method developed to assist people in letting go of negative thoughts, memories, and emotions. This technique releases unwanted feelings and limiting beliefs by tapping on acupressure meridians and repeating statements, allowing new, positive beliefs to emerge.
- Healing Touch
  Healing Touch is a gentle and non-invasive form of energy therapy that utilizes soft, intentional touch to promote wellness by balancing the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual layers in a person’s biofield.
- Herbalism
  Herbalism is the practice of using herbs to treat symptoms and prevent illness based on clinical experience and traditional knowledge of medicinal plant remedies collected over thousands of years. Herbs can decrease anxiety, gastrointestinal issues, depression, insomnia, and promote health.
- Homeopathy
  Homeopathy is the practice of medicine that embraces a holistic approach, where minute doses of natural substances are used to treat the whole person and stimulate the person’s own healing power.
- Massage Therapy
  Massage Therapy provides a sense of compassion and can help medically stabilize a person. Massage Therapists manipulate the soft tissues of a person’s body by using different movements and pressure.
- Meditation
  Meditation is a mind and body practice that promotes relaxation and calmness, reduces anxiety, depression, and physical discomfort, and increases awareness of the present moment.
- Music Therapy
  Music Therapy is an evidence-based, clinical use of music that assists in supporting a person physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and socially.
- Myofascial Release
  Myofascial Release is a hands-on technique that focuses on reducing pain by releasing tightness in a person’s myofascial tissue. Myofascial Release focuses on reducing pain by easing the tension in “trigger points”, which are responsible for a person’s pain.
- Nutritionist
  A nutritionist is a person who educates people on how to apply principles of nutrition to promote healthy lifestyles and disease prevention.
- Pendulum Energy Healing
  Pendulum Energy Healing is a method to help loved ones transition with grace by using energy commands focusing on releasing emotional traumas, harmonizing relationships, increasing love, and helping consciousness to exit the body peacefully while bringing peace to the soul.
- Polarity Therapy
  Polarity Therapy is an energy therapy that can decrease stress, pain, and some disease symptoms by influencing a person’s positive and negative energy flow. Polarity Therapy improves fatigue and decreases anxiety, depression, and pain.
- Psych-K
  Psych-K is a non-invasive process developed from neuroscience research that facilitates a change at a person’s subconscious level, changing beliefs that are self-limiting and self-sabotaging.
- Reflexology
  Reflexology is a type of bodywork where pressure is applied to areas on a person’s feet or hands that correspond to organs in a person’s body. Reflexology reduces stress and pain and promotes relaxation, sleep, and healing in those areas of the body.
- Reiki
  Reiki is an energy therapy technique that originates from Japanese culture. Reiki is based on the idea that if a person’s life force energy is low, the person is more likely to feel unwell, and if a person’s life force energy is high, the person is more likely to be happy and healthy.
- ReTensioning
  ReTensioning is a form of bodywork that improves movement and function. Gentle anatomic, neurologic, and physiologic techniques are applied to each joint in a person’s body, restoring the balance between rest and activity at a cellular level.
- Sound Healing
  Sound Healing is a practice that uses vibrations from crystal bowls, tuning forks, gongs, and binaural beats to promote deep relaxation and to improve a person’s physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
- Yoga
  Yoga is an ancient practice that brings together mind and body utilizing breathing exercises, poses, and meditation to reduce stress and inflammation, improve strength, flexibility, balance, joint health, self-confidence, and calmness.