Specialized health care, supportive in nature, provided to a dying person. A holistic approach is often taken, providing patients and their families with legal, financial, emotional, or spiritual counseling in addition to meeting patients' immediate physical needs. Care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialized facilities (HOSPICES), or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities. The concept also includes bereavement care for the family. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)
    

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Jo Spence in a hospice bed.

Dying in the West : health care policies and caregiving practices in Montana and Alberta, 1880-1950 / by Dawn Dorothy Nickel.

Hospital of St. John & St. Elizabeth : 150 years of compassion and excellence supporting St. John's Hospice.

ChYps : EllenorLions Hospices : 'hospice care for children & young people' : "they bring the hospice to our home".

Cancer charities ephemera. Box 1.

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Dying in the West : health care policies and caregiving practices in Montana and Alberta, 1880-1950 / by Dawn Dorothy Nickel.

Jo Spence in a hospice bed.

Hospital of St. John & St. Elizabeth : 150 years of compassion and excellence supporting St. John's Hospice.

ChYps : EllenorLions Hospices : 'hospice care for children & young people' : "they bring the hospice to our home".

Cancer charities ephemera. Box 1.