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2. 5 Things You Need to Know When a Loved One Enters Hospice Care

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   Hospice care does not mean that the patient is giving up or has lost hope. It is more a redefinition of hope and a way to manage expectations and re-set goals. It is difficult to make decisions at ...

3. Hospice care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   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 the incurably ill has been evolving ...

4. Palliative sedation - Wikipedia

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   In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous ...

5. Palliative care - Wikipedia

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   Palliative care can be initiated in a variety of care settings, including emergency rooms, hospitals, hospice facilities, or at home. For some severe disease processes, medical specialty professional organizations recommend initiating palliative care at the time of diagnosis or when disease-directed options would not improve a patient's prognosis .

6. Hospice, Inc. - The Huffington Post

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   HuffPost found 759 hospices that haven’t been inspected in more than 6 years. Nursing home inspections, by contrast, are required by federal law at least every 15 months. Over a recent three-year span, 55 percent of all U.S. hospices were cited for a violation, many care-related, HuffPost found.

7. Jimmy Carter has opted for home hospice care. Here’s what ...

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   Former President Jimmy Carter has decided to “spend his remaining time at home” and receive hospice care, the Carter Center announced on Saturday. The 98-year-old Carter has overcome a myriad ...