A peaceful place for the final chapter
We work alongside hospice teams to provide comfort, dignity, and family presence — at home, with people who know your loved one.
For residents in their final months or weeks
When a resident is on hospice — or when a long-term resident transitions to hospice while living with us — our role shifts. We continue to be home; the hospice team brings clinical end-of-life care; the family brings what only family can.
Some residents come to us specifically for hospice — when staying at home is no longer possible, but a hospital or nursing facility feels too clinical. Others have lived here a long time and want to remain through the end. Either is welcome.
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How hospice care works here
- Coordination with the hospice team — nurses, social workers, chaplains
- 24/7 awake caregivers managing comfort and dignity
- Pain management support per hospice protocol
- Repositioning, hygiene, and skin care
- Quiet, private bedroom with natural light
- Family welcome at all hours — overnight stays accommodated
- Cultural and religious traditions honored — prayer, sacrament, music
- Familiar caregivers who already know the resident
- Calm presence — never rushed, never alone
- Communication with family throughout
- Respect for the resident's wishes and advance directives
- Support for family members through the process
- Coordination with hospice for after-death arrangements
- Continued support for family after a resident's passing
To die at home, surrounded
Most people, asked where they'd want to be at the end of their life, say "at home." Most people do not get that. They die in hospitals, in nursing facilities, surrounded by strangers and beeping monitors.
A small adult family home is the closest thing to dying at home that most people in care can have. The room is private. The faces are familiar. The hands are gentle. Family is welcome around the clock — to sit, to read, to simply be present. Cultural traditions can be observed without permission. There's time. There's quiet.
Hospice handles the medical and spiritual side of end-of-life care. We handle the home. Together, the experience is what most families hope for: a peaceful passage, with love nearby.
My mother had been at Better Life for two years before she went on hospice. When the time came, she stayed in the room she knew. The caregivers she loved were the ones holding her hand. We were never asked to leave. She passed at four in the morning with my sister beside her and Abonesh making coffee in the kitchen. It was as good as it could have been.