hospice
End-of-life care
Hospice is a facility or program providing care for terminally ill patients, focusing on comfort rather than cure.
The emphasis is on managing pain and maintaining quality of life in final weeks or months: She entered hospice care after stopping chemotherapy.
Hospice philosophy extends to home care, where medical teams visit patients who prefer to die at home surrounded by family.
Offering relief, not remedy
- end-of-lifeNearing death phase
- dignityInnate personal worth
- terminalAt the endpoint
- incurableCannot be healed
Of the Middle Ages
Sharing another's emotions
- kindnessConsiderate, caring disposition
- gentlenessSoft, kind demeanor
- dignityInnate personal worth
- comfortEase or soothing relief
warmth · tenderness · mercy · solace · consolation · grace · caring · patience
State following loss
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- volunteersUnpaid willing workers
- respiteShort pause from hardship
- holisticAddressing interconnected wholes
patient-centered · interdisciplinary · chaplain · caregiver · nursing · therapy · listening · companionship
Protected sacred space
- havenShelter from danger
- retreatSanctuary or withdrawal
- shelteredKept safe from harm
- protectedKept from harm
residential · inpatient · facility · unit · bed · room · garden · chapel
Undisturbed peacefulness
- serenityUndisturbed mental quietude
- calmFree from agitation
- restfulnessCalm, peaceful state
- quietudeState of calm stillness
repose · stillness · ease · acceptance · closure · reconciliation · farewell · legacy
palliative
Offering relief, not remedy
- end-of-lifeNearing death phase
- dignityInnate personal worth
- terminalAt the endpoint
medieval
Of the Middle Ages
empathy
Sharing another's emotions
- kindnessConsiderate, caring disposition
- gentlenessSoft, kind demeanor
- dignityInnate personal worth
comfort · warmth · tenderness · mercy · solace · consolation · grace · caring · patience · humanity
bereavement
State following loss
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- volunteersUnpaid willing workers
- respiteShort pause from hardship
holistic · patient-centered · interdisciplinary · chaplain · caregiver · nursing · therapy · listening · companionship · vigil
sanctuary
Protected sacred space
protected · residential · inpatient · facility · unit · bed · room · garden · chapel
tranquility
Undisturbed peacefulness
- serenityUndisturbed mental quietude
- calmFree from agitation
- restfulnessCalm, peaceful state
quietude · repose · stillness · ease · acceptance · closure · reconciliation · farewell · legacy · resolution
- Catholic ChurchVatican, papacy, cardinals, popes, papal
- deathdead, deceased, corpse, mortality, demise
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- Care Servicesbabysitting, pet sitting, house sitting, day care, daycare
- charitiesRed Cross, food bank, food banks, homeless shelter, homeless shelters
- charitycharity, charities, donations, donation, donating
hospiceaggressive treatment
Forceful medical intervention
intensive care · acute care · ICU · chemotherapy · radiation therapy
hospicematernity ward
Hospital section for childbirth
birthing center · neonatal unit · NICU · nursery · labor and delivery
hospicefighting for life
life preservation · full code · intervention · survival mode
- hospital bedClinical sleeping furniture
- hospital gownBackless medical garment
- in the hospitalAdmitted as inpatient
- mental hospitalPsychiatric inpatient facility
- children's hospitalHealthcare facility for youth
- hospital wardTreatment division in clinic
hospital, hospitable, hospitality, inhospitable, hospitalized, hospitalize, hospitalization, hospitalizes, hospitalizing