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Hospices

Nursing Standard, 1990
Health Authorities are providing support I to hospices in kind' rather than in hard cash, according to a snapshot survey of 22 health districts, carried out by the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts (NAHAT).
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The Hospice Movement

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1979
To the Editor.— The editorial "The Hospice Movement" by John P. Callan, MD (241:600, 1979), was interesting but destructive. By adopting the same philosophical approach as the one that collectively calls the nation's health care programs the "health industry," he assesses the hospice movement's approach to man's "agony of extinction" in monetarist ...
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The Hospice Ideology and Success of Hospice Care

Research on Aging, 1985
Hospice is a concept of terminal care based on an ideology that specifies a particular way for patients and families to deal with death and dying. This article describes this ideology and attempts to assess its success for hospice patients. Findings show that hospice care is more successful for patients who are more aware of their terminal status, who ...
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Hospice Care

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1986
"Birth and death are the most singular events we experience and therefore the contemplation of death as of birth should be a thing of beauty." The hospice movement emerged out of an awareness that the needs of the dying patient were not being adequately met by the modern medical establishment.
L M, Mathew, J H, Scully
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HOSPICE CARE

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1992
Hospice care is a philosophy and system of care for the terminally ill patient that accepts death in an affirmative way and provides palliative care and emotional support to dying patients and their families. The primary care physician needs to better understand the hospice concepts, the reasons for and growth of hospice care, and the depth of ...
J D, Plumb, K S, Ogle
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Perinatal hospice

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2001
When the prenatal diagnosis of a lethal fetal anomaly has been established, some patients choose to continue their pregnancy. Currently, there is a paucity of medical literature addressing the specific management of families in this unique circumstance.
N J, Hoeldtke, B C, Calhoun
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Hospice nursing

Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 1996
To provide an overview of hospice services provided, and hospices affiliated with home health agencies.Published articles, book chapters, and organizational standards.Hospice programs recognize that dying is a part of life that requires a redirection of goals from cure to palliation.
J C, McNally   +2 more
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In Praise of Hospice

JAMA
In this narrative medicine essay, a retired physician describes the kindness, companionship, and skill of the hospice workers who helped his wife and him prepare for her death.
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The Blessing of Hospice

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 2009
Hospice care is provided at the end of life. End-of-life care is not discussed until it is needed. The average person knows the term but not what it really means until a terminal diagnosis is made. This article discusses the end-of-life issues faced by our mother and how it affected the entire family.
Kruschke, Cheryl Ann, Leon, Deborah Lee
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Selling Hospice

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2014
Hospice care in the United States has undergone a remarkable transformation since it assumed its modern form in the late 1960s. It began as a movement driven by small organizations staffed with many volunteer providers focusing on comprehensive spiritual, palliative, and mental health services for a relatively small number of terminally ill patients ...
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