LOVE | COMPASSION | DIGNITY
Why Families Choose
Caritas Hospice
We guide patients and families through hospice care with grace, compassion, and dignity.
We guide you with
grace.
When considering hospice care for a loved one, many of us feel uncertain about where to begin or what to do. This is where our care journey starts. We’re here to provide the guidance, support, and respect you need, with dignity at every step.
We support you with
compassion and
understanding
When considering hospice care for a loved one, many families feel unsure where to begin. Caritas Hospice helps you understand the care journey, answer difficult questions, and make decisions with dignity.
Care centered around the
patient and family
Hospice care is not only medical support. It is guidance, communication,
comfort, and presence when families need it most.
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Every care plan is shaped around the patient's needs, wishes, comfort, and goals.
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We support families with guidance, communication, and resources throughout the care journey.
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Our team is here to help patients and families when support is needed most.
Serving Dallas-Fort Worth and surrounding Texas communities
Caritas Hospice is based in Dallas, Texas and provides hospice care for patients and
families across the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Questions families often
ask
Families usually have practical questions before choosing hospice care. These answers help remove the first layer of uncertainty.
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Hospice focuses on comfort when cure is no longer the goal.
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Hospice care may be appropriate when a serious illness is no longer responding to curative treatment, or when comfort, dignity, and quality of life become the main goals of care.
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Hospice care is available to individuals who have a serious, life-limiting illness and a prognosis of approximately six months or less if the disease follows its usual course. Eligibility is determined by a physician in collaboration with the patient and family, and includes consideration of the patient’s overall health, medical needs, and goals for care. Hospice is appropriate for a wide range of illnesses, including cancer, heart, lung, or kidney disease, Alzheimer’s or other dementias, and chronic neurological or progressive conditions.
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No. Many families benefit from hospice support earlier because it gives patients and caregivers more time with medical care, pain management, emotional support, and guidance
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Care may include skilled nursing, a medical director, hospice aides, social work support, chaplain care, volunteers, therapy support, and bereavement guidance.
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Yes. Families can call Caritas Hospice to ask questions, understand care options, and decide whether hospice is the right next step.