Older people excel at this. No, older people tend to have better vocabulary. It is hard to be complacent about terminal illness. No, Kubler-Ross did not use this term to label any of the stages in her description of dying people. Sometimes patients under hospice care are housed in a clinic called a hospice, but this is not the most common form of hospice care.
Most hospice care occurs in a patient's home.
Hospice nurses and helpers visit as needed. No, usually people leave hospitals when they enter hospice care. No, usually hospice care is started when a person has left than six months left to live, according to a doctor.