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Hospice care
* Most hospice care occurs in a patient's home.
* affirms life and regards dying as a normal process.
* allows a beneficiary to stay in their home during the final stages of their illness
  - every person and family to participate fully in the final stages of one's life
* choice - a choice to enhance the life of a loved one with a progressive illness.
* compassionate method of caring for terminally ill people.
* comprehensive program for anyone with limited life expectancy.
* concentrates on keeping quality of life high.
* covered benefit under most private insurance plans
  - insurances and HMOs
* decreases costly hospitalizations.
* emphasizes providing comfort and symptom control rather than cure
  - quality of life over length of days
* focuses on comfort, support, and dignity during the last phase of life.
* focuses on the entire family
  - family as a whole, treatment as it relates to the patient
  - person's emotional, social, physical and spiritual needs
  - whole person, and their family and loved ones
* includes both patient and family as the primary unit of care
  - the entire family, in or out of an inpatient setting
* involves a team approach to care
  - an interdisciplinary team of medical, social and spiritual professionals
  - interdisciplinary teams of professionals
* is about compassion, dignity and quality of life rather than about cure.
* is designed to be of benefit during the last six months of life
  - replace inpatient hospital care
  - directed toward meeting the needs of the terminally ill
  - extended to family members during their loved one's illness
  - for any person who is experiencing the final phase of their disease
* is for the terminally ill patient
  - given in periods of care
  - holistic in nature
  - individualized to the needs of the patient
  - more than medical care
  - palliative care designed to ease the patients' mental and physical suffering
  - preferred by many physicians and family caregivers in cases of end-stage dementia
  - provided in the home, nursing home, or group home
  - sensitive, dignified and cost-effective health care
  - specialized care for the terminally ill
* is the best example of attending to a patient's entire being
  - care that is given to individuals who are terminally ill
  - primary system to provide care for the terminally ill and their families
  - very successful in controlling cancer pain
  - what is known as palliative care
* means support, control, dignity and peace of mind for the entire family
  - the patient is more comfortable, more at peace and more in control
* phase of care whereby aggressive treatment is no longer appropriate.
* portion of the broader scope of palliative care.
* provides respect and dignity to the terminally ill in their final days.
* refers to specialized, relatively non-interventional care given to terminal patients.
* remains dedicated to serving the terminally ill person at home.
* serves a functional purpose for care at the end of life
  - patients in homes, in hospitals, and in nursing homes
* special type of care for terminally ill patients.
* supports patients to live alert, pain-controlled lives, maintaining dignity and choice.
* system designed to aid dying individuals and their families.
* takes many forms and varies from place to place.
* team concept.
* unique individualized plan of care tailored to patient and family needs.

Infant care
* derivative or composite science and art.
* includes cost.