Hospice
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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. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life by reducing pain and suffering. Hospice care provides an alternative to therapies focused on life-prolonging measures that may be arduous, likely to cause more symptoms, or are not aligned with a person's goals.
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See also
- Children's hospice
- Deathbed phenomena
- Death midwife
- Hospice chaplain
- Life support
- Opioid
- Pain management
- Robert Twycross
- Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance
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