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2. Home health nursing - Wikipedia

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   Home health care is a cost efficient way to deliver quality care in the convenience of the client's home. [2] Home health nurses create care plans to achieve goals based on the client's diagnosis. These plans can include preventive, therapeutic, and rehabilitative actions. [1] Home health nurses also supervise certified nursing assistants.

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. Hospice - Wikipedia

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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 ...

5. End-of-life care - Wikipedia

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   End-of-life care. End-of-life care ( EOLC) is health care provided in the time leading up to a person's death. End-of-life care can be provided in the hours, days, or months before a person dies and encompasses care and support for a person's mental and emotional needs, physical comfort, spiritual needs, and practical tasks. [1] [2]

6. 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 ...

7. Visiting nurse association - Wikipedia

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   Visiting nurse association. A visiting nurse association ( VNA ), also known as a visiting nurse agency or home healthcare agency or association, is any of various American organizations that provide home healthcare and hospice services through a network of nurses, therapists, social workers, and other healthcare associates for patients who are ...

8. Home care - Wikipedia

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   Home care. Homecare (also spelled as home care) is health care or supportive care provided by a professional caregiver in the individual home where the patient or client is living, as opposed to care provided in group accommodations like clinics or nursing home. [1] Homecare is also known as domiciliary care, social care or in-home care.

9. Home care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Home health care is medical in nature and is provided by licensed, skilled healthcare professionals. Home health care providers deliver services in the client's own home. Professional home health services may include medical or psychological assessment, wound care, pain management, disease education and management, physical therapy, speech ...