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2. Guide to Hospice Care: Your Questions Answered - WebMD

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   Hospice care is a type of palliative care -- which is care that focuses on comfort and quality of life for someone with a serious illness. All palliative care aims to match your care with your ...

3. What Is Hospice Care? - Healthline

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   Hospice is medical care designed for the end of someone’s life. The purpose of hospice is to improve the quality of life that’s left. Hospice provides pain and other symptom relief, as well as ...

4. Hospice - Wikipedia

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   Hospice. 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 ...

5. Palliative Care vs. Hospice: How Do They Differ? - Healthline

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   Palliative care is an option as soon as you receive a diagnosis of a serious, life-altering condition. Hospice care, on the other hand, isn’t available until a doctor evaluates a timeline for ...

6. Hospice and Palliative Care: What’s the Difference? - WebMD

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   It’s about easing pain and helping families prepare for the end of life. Palliative care is part of that, but it’s just one part. People in hospice care generally are expected to have less ...

7. Hospice care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Hospice care in the United States. Exterior of an inpatient hospice unit. In the United States, hospice care is a type and philosophy of end-of-life care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms. These symptoms can be physical, emotional, spiritual, or social in nature. The concept of hospice as a place to treat ...

8. Hospice: Care and Comfort for the Patient and Caregiver - WebMD

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   And that number is 844-438-6744. And through that number, you can find out throughout the nation about the availability of community-based not-for-profit hospice. Well, Sharon, Tom, I want to ...

9. Hospice and palliative medicine - Wikipedia

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   Initially as a form of lodging for the sick, hospice refers to holistic end of life care. The word palliate comes from the Latin word "pallium", which means "cloak"—to palliate is to cloak, or cover up, the symptoms of an illness without curing it. [1] Palliative care got its start as hospice care delivered largely by caregivers at religious ...