When serious illness changes life for you or a loved one, palliative care can help you reclaim comfort, dignity, and peace of mind. Aspen Healthcare brings skilled palliative care directly to your home—where healing and support feel most natural. Our compassionate nurse practitioners visit patients throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including Collin County, Denton County, Plano, and Lewisville. Licensed social workers and physicians may also support your care plan. Please reach out today to talk with us about how we can help.
Palliative care is specialized medical care focused on relieving the symptoms and stress of chronic or serious illness. Whether you are dealing with pain, fatigue, nausea, or emotional challenges, Aspen Healthcare’s in-home palliative care helps you live more fully—on your own terms. Unlike hospice care, palliative care is available at any stage of a diagnosis and may be provided alongside curative treatments or home health services.
You may benefit from palliative care if you:
Medicare and most insurance plans cover in-home palliative care when these conditions are met. Aspen Healthcare provides care throughout Collin County, Denton County, Dallas, Plano, and Lewisville, TX.
At Aspen Healthcare, we take the time to truly understand what matters to you. Our team collaborates closely with your existing healthcare providers and makes frequent home visits—often multiple times per week—to bring you physical relief, emotional support, and clear guidance.
Our care includes:
If you're navigating a serious illness and feeling overwhelmed by the symptoms or the process, you don’t have to go through it alone. Aspen Healthcare’s in-home palliative care is here for you and your family—with heart, skill, and dignity.
Palliative care is a category of medical specialties. However, it's also a term often used to categorize any treatment that is intended to alleviate symptoms rather than cure a disease. This can be confusing, because, as a category, all hospice care is palliative care, but not all palliative care is hospice care. Both palliative care and hospice care prove very valuable for the right patients. In short, hospice is best for patients in an advanced stage of a terminal disease, when reasonable curative treatment options have been exhausted or are no longer desired, and when a patient's goals have shifted more toward quality of life. Home visits through Aspen's palliative care program are for patients in earlier stages of chronic disease, when symptom management could benefit from more attention than is normal for other care settings. Let's breakdown the differences.
| Feature | Aspen Palliative Care | Hospice |
| Specializes in complex symptom relief and quality of life | Yes | Yes |
| Often makes multiple, long visits each week | Yes | Yes |
| Sends prescribers, such as nurse practitioners, to the home as the primary service | Yes | No |
| Sends nurses, aides, volunteers, therapists, and hospice chaplain as needed, as primary service | No, but can be coordinated as referred-to services | Yes |
| Insurance will pay for curative treatments simultaneously | Yes | No |
| Medicare pays 100% for services, supplies, equipment, and meds as a comprehensive bundled package | No | Yes |
| Insurance treats services much like a regular specialist-doctor visit | Yes | No |
| Available during all stages of chronic disease | Yes | Late stage only |
| Prognosis requirement for insurance benefits | No | Yes |
| Covers bereavement support | No | Yes |
| Homebound requirement | No | No |
Learn more about our award-winning, accredited, and certified home health agency. With nearly two decades of service to Dallas-Fort Worth, and with a team of more than 200 home-health professionals, Aspen Healthcare stands apart as one of the region's leading providers of community-based healthcare, home health, and hospice.
With offices in Lewisville, TX (Denton County), Aspen Healthcare makes Medicare, in-home palliative care available throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Denton County, Collin County, and Plano, TX. Please do not hesitate to contact us about the availability of home health services in your area.
