hospice worker
Terminal care provider
A hospice worker provides care and support to terminally ill patients and their families, typically when curative treatment has ended.
The role encompasses medical staff like nurses and aides, as well as social workers, chaplains, and volunteers.
Hospice workers focus on comfort, pain management, and emotional support rather than prolonging life: The hospice worker helped the family prepare for what was coming.
- caregiverOne providing daily assistance
- palliativeOffering relief, not remedy
- comfort careSymptom relief, not cure
- comfortEase or soothing relief
- dyingCeasing to live
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- elder caresenior care, aged care, elderly care, gerontologist, geriatrician
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