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ARTICLES RELATED TO Palliative care - Hospice and palliative care goals | | | |  Palliative care - Hospice and palliative care goals: Encyclopedia II - Palliative care - Hospice and palliative care goalsMore than a place, hospice care is a philosophy that is now called "palliative care." Dictionary.com defines a hospice as "A program that provides palliative care and attends to the emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill patients at an inpatient facility or at the patient's home," and the Cancer Web Internet site defines a hospice as "An institution that provides a centralised program of palliative and supportive services to dying persons and their families, in the form of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care; such se ...
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| | | | Palliative care - Hospice and palliative care goals: Encyclopedia II - Palliative care - Palliative care practice Palliative care most often occurs in the dying person's home. It is also provided in free-standing inpatient (hospice) units and within regular hospital units.
In most countries, hospice care is provided by an interdisciplinary team consisting of physicians, registered nurses, chaplains, social workers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, complimentary therapists, volunteers and, most importantly, the family. The focus of the team is to optimize the patient's comfort. Additional members of the team are likely to include home he ...
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