hospices
End-of-life facilities
Hospices are facilities or programs providing care for the terminally ill, focused on comfort rather than cure.
The emphasis is on managing pain and supporting patients and families through the dying process: She spent her final weeks in hospice.
Hospice care can occur in dedicated facilities, hospitals, or at home.
The singular hospice originally meant a shelter for travelers or pilgrims.
Nearing death phase
- comfortEase or soothing relief
- dyingCeasing to live
- pain managementReducing patient suffering medically
- dignityInnate personal worth
compassion · quality of life · peaceful death · morphine · sedation · holistic · spiritual · emotional
Offering relief, not remedy
- terminalAt the endpoint
- bedsFurniture for sleeping
- inpatientAdmitted overnight patient
- residentialRelating to housing
nursing · rooms · wings · wards · admissions · capacity · nonprofit · freestanding
Of the Middle Ages
- pilgrimsReligious journey takers
- travelersPeople on trips
- monksCloistered religious men
- nunsFemale religious monastics
religious · wayfarers · refuge · shelter · sick · poor · Knights Hospitaller · monasteries
Peace with one's mortality
- natural deathDeath from internal causes
- patient-centeredPrioritizing individual care needs
- presenceState of being somewhere
- accompanimentSupplementary support element
letting go · final journey · transition · death with dignity · good death · sacred · Dame · movement
end-of-life
Nearing death phase
- comfortEase or soothing relief
- dyingCeasing to live
- pain managementReducing patient suffering medically
dignity · compassion · quality of life · peaceful death · morphine · sedation · holistic · spiritual · emotional · family support
palliative
Offering relief, not remedy
residential · nursing · rooms · wings · wards · admissions · capacity · nonprofit · freestanding · Medicare
medieval
Of the Middle Ages
nuns · religious · wayfarers · refuge · shelter · sick · poor · Knights Hospitaller · monasteries · charitable
death acceptance
Peace with one's mortality
- natural deathDeath from internal causes
- patient-centeredPrioritizing individual care needs
- presenceState of being somewhere
accompaniment · letting go · final journey · transition · death with dignity · good death · sacred · Dame · movement · modern
- charitycharity, charities, donations, donation, donating
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, clinic, primary care
- Volunteeringvolunteer, volunteering, volunteer hours, unpaid work, volunteer coordinators
- ancient traveltravelers, Silk Road, pilgrims, trade routes, caravans
- health organizationsclinic, WHO, CDC, NIH, FDA
- Irish HealthcareGP, nurses, doctor, consultant, medical card
hospicesrehabilitation centers
Institutions for recovery programs
trauma centers · intensive care units · hospitals · surgical centers · treatment facilities
hospicesmaternity wards
Hospital areas for childbirth
birthing centers · fertility clinics · nurseries · pediatric wards
- hospice careEnd-of-life medical comfort
- hospice nurseTerminal illness care provider
- home hospiceEnd-stage care at residence
- hospice workerCares for dying patients
- hospice volunteerHelper for the terminally ill
- hospice patientPerson receiving end-stage care