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Specialized health care, supportive in nature, provided to a dying person. A holistic approach is often taken, providing patients and their families with legal, financial, emotional, or spiritual counseling in addition to meeting patients' immediate physical needs. Care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialized facilities (HOSPICES), or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities. The concept also includes bereavement care for the family. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)
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- Care, Hospice
- Bereavement Care
- Hospice Programs
- Care, Bereavement
- Hospice Program
- Program, Hospice
- Programs, Hospice
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, psychology, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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for the dying; /psychol permitted
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- Hospices (1977-1991)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Hospice Care. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017051. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017051
- Hospice Care. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70438676