What: Michelle Van Harn, LVT and hospice nurse at Heaven at Home, introduces you to a few different ways of measuring your pet’s quality of life. Michelle explains how the scorecards work, contrasting them so you can see which best suits you and your pet, giving you the most accurate assessment.
Why It Matters: A Quality of Life scorecard is a snapshot in time of how your pet is doing, whether they have more good days or bad. While the Heaven at Home Pet Hospice team can assist you in assessing the quality of life of your senior pet, we can’t make the decision for you. Pet parents play a pivotal role in assessing a pet’s quality of life because they are direct observers of the day-to-day signals of their pet’s condition.
See the Pet Quality of Life Scorecard here.
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