Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life.
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15 Facts About Hospice care
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Hospice care includes assistance for patients' families to help them cope with what is happening and provide care and support to keep the patient at home.
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Goal of hospice care is to prioritize comfort, quality of life and individual wishes.
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The relationship she developed with a dying Polish refugee helped solidify her ideas that terminally ill patients needed compassionate Hospice care to help address their fears and concerns as well as palliative comfort for physical symptoms.
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Hospice care developed many foundational principles of modern hospice care at St Joseph's.
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Hospice care disseminated her philosophy internationally in a series of tours of the United States that began in 1963.
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Hospice care can be administered in a nursing home, hospice building, or sometimes a hospital; however, it is most commonly practiced in the home.
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Hospice was the subject of the Netflix 2018 Academy Award-nominated short documentary End Game, about terminally ill patients in a San Francisco hospital and Zen Hospice Project, featuring the work of palliative care physician BJ Miller and other palliative care clinicians.
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Hospice care opened in 1980 in Harare, Zimbabwe, the first in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Representatives of Nairobi Hospice sit on the committee to develop a Health Sector Strategic Plan for the Ministry of Health and work with the Ministry of Health to help develop palliative care guidelines for cervical cancer.
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At that time, palliative Hospice care was not widely taught at nursing schools or universally certified at medical colleges; only 175 specialized palliative Hospice care physicians served all of Canada.
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Hospice care is available to people in home-like hospice residences, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, veterans' facilities, hospitals and prisons.
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Models of both home-based care and stand-alone hospices exist globally, but with the cultural and societal preferences of patients and their families to die at home in Egypt there is an inclination to focus on the development of home-based hospice and palliative care services.
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The goal of hospice care is to meet the needs of both the patient and family, knowing that a home death is not always the best outcome.
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