hospice patients
End-of-life recipients
People receiving end-of-life care focused on comfort rather than cure.
Hospice patients have terminal illnesses with limited life expectancy—typically six months or less—and have chosen to forgo aggressive treatment in favor of pain management and quality of life: The hospice patients received daily visits from nurses and chaplains.
- terminalAt the endpoint
- comfortEase or soothing relief
- pain managementReducing patient suffering medically
- dyingCeasing to live
- palliativeOffering relief, not remedy
comfort care · morphine · bedside · bedside vigil · family · dignity · peaceful · nurses · end-of-life · final days · pain · do not resuscitate · quality of life · medication · caregivers · bedridden · final · gentle
- populationsinpatients, outpatients, hospitalized, terminally ill, immunocompromised
- patientsinpatients, inpatient, outpatients, outpatient
- seniorssenior citizens, senior, elderly, old woman, old lady
- invalidsinvalid, invalids, infirm, bedridden, incapacitated
- Disabilitiesblind, paralysis, vision loss, developmental disability, hearing impairment
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