end-of-life care
Final illness care
End-of-life care refers to medical treatment, comfort measures, and support provided to people in the final stages of a terminal illness or advanced age.
The focus shifts from curing disease to managing pain, maintaining dignity, and addressing emotional and spiritual needs.
It encompasses hospice care, palliative care, and decisions about life-sustaining treatments.
Her family arranged for end-of-life care at home so she could be surrounded by loved ones.
- hospiceTerminal illness comfort program
- palliativeOffering relief, not remedy
- comfortEase or soothing relief
- pain managementReducing patient suffering medically
- dignityInnate personal worth
terminal · dying · morphine · bedside · vigil · peaceful · saying goodbye · family · chaplain · pain · relief · wishes · last rites · DNR · do not resuscitate · living will · grieving · compassion
- deathdead, deceased, corpse, mortality, demise
- elder caregerontologist, geriatrician, geriatric nurse, geriatric medicine, assisted living
- medical decisionstreatment planning, informed consent, treatment options, clinical judgment, DNR
- medical lawmalpractice, medical liability, informed consent, medical licensing, medical negligence
- patient carepatient safety, disease management, home health, patient advocacy, patient education
- patient rightspatient rights, informed consent, patient advocacy, patient advocate, advance directive
end-of-life careaggressive treatment
Forceful medical intervention
definitive treatment · cancer treatment · chemotherapy · surgical intervention
end-of-life careneonatal care
Medical support for newborns
newborn care · obstetric care · prenatal care · maternity care · pediatric care
end-of-life carerehabilitation
Recovery from injury/addiction
convalescent care · acute care · physical therapy · wellness care · preventive care
ended, ending, endless, endlessly, life, lively, lifelong, lifetime, lifeless