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Hospice Care - Methods
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Definition of 'Hospice Care'Specialized health care, supportive in nature, provided to a dying person. A holistic approach is often taken, providing patients and their families with legal, financial, emotional, or spiritual counseling in addition to meeting patients' immediate physical needs. Care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialized facilities (HOSPICES), or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities. The concept also includes bereavement care for the family. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed) |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Making difficult discussions easier: using prognosis to facilitate transitions to hospice.
15 Jun 2009 
Patients with advanced cancer face difficult decisions regarding their treatment, and many will need to make difficult choices about end-of-life care because although cancer-directed therapies are increasingly available, few provide a cure. ... Read more...
Journeying with Alice: some things I don't know for certain.
9 Jun 2009 
In this narrative I reflect on those things I do not know for certain. The narrative is constructed around my experience of giving Alice, a patient at the hospice where I worked as a complementary therapist, a foot massage. The narrative reveals the ... Read more...
The spiritual meaning of pre-loss music therapy to bereaved caregivers of advanced cancer patients.
27 Feb 2009 OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to learn how music therapy sessions, held prior to the death of a loved one, impact spirituality in surviving caregivers of advanced cancer patients. METHOD: The method of naturalistic inquiry was used to ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Hospice Care - Methods'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Proposed FDA rules on painkillers in U.S. Rile cancer community.
29 Sep 2009 - Will our baby be alive again? Supporting parents of young children when a baby dies. 30 Jul 2009
- Paws and relax: one hospice's pet therapy journey. 29 Jun 2009
- [A workshop on touch-relaxation for health personnel] 29 Jun 2009
- Making difficult discussions easier: using prognosis to facilitate transitions to hospice. 15 Jun 2009
- Journeying with Alice: some things I don't know for certain. 9 Jun 2009
- Hospices and CPR guidelines. CPR in a hospice in perspective. 7 Jun 2009
- Broadening the horizon of treatment or is the grass always greener on the other side? 30 Mar 2009
- The spiritual meaning of pre-loss music therapy to bereaved caregivers of advanced cancer patients. 27 Feb 2009
- Targeted therapy: comprehensive review. 17 Feb 2009
- Reflection on my mother dying: a story of caring shame. 29 Jan 2009
- Might massage or guided meditation provide "means to a better end"? Primary outcomes from an efficacy trial with patients at the end of life. 30 Dec 2008
- A pilot study on effectiveness of music therapy in hospice in Japan. 30 Dec 2008
- Creating a spiritual tapestry: nurses' experiences of delivering spiritual care to patients in an Irish hospice. 30 Dec 2008
- Dire deadlines: coping with dysfunctional family dynamics in an end-of-life care setting. 30 Dec 2008
- Children affected by genetic conditions in end-of-life care. Part 2: findings and discussion. 30 Dec 2008
- Acupuncture as an optional treatment for hospice patients with xerostomia: an intervention study. 30 Dec 2008
- Construction of a parent-derived questionnaire to measure end-of-life care after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in the neonatal intensive care unit. 30 Dec 2008
- The use of sedative drugs at the end of life in a UK hospice. 22 Oct 2008
- Delirium assessment tool for end of life: CHIMBOP. 29 Sep 2008
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Technical information about 'Hospice Care'
Definition: Specialized health care, supportive in nature, provided to a dying person. A holistic approach is often taken, providing patients and their families with legal, financial, emotional, or spiritual counseling in addition to meeting patients' immediate physical needs. Care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialized facilities (HOSPICES), or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities. The concept also includes bereavement care for the family. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)
Descriptor UI: D017051
Alternative terms: Hospice Care; Care, Hospice; Hospice Programs; Hospice Program; Program, Hospice; Programs, Hospice; Bereavement Care; Care, Bereavement;
Related Mesh Headings: Respite Care;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;
Tree Number: E02.760.905.400; N02.421.585.905.400;
History Note: 92
Technical Notes: for the dying; /psychol permitted