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Article: Hospice around the World
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- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
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Hospice Around the World
Known initially as "palliative care," the modern hospice movement began in the 1970s. Over time it has sought to provide end-of-life care in the home or a specially designated unit with a special focus on the patient's physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs. The movement has also
sought to provide inpatient care for acute symptom management and family respite.
With the advent of the palliative-medicine movement in the last decade of the twentieth century, the meanings of terms
palliative medicine
and
palliative care
expanded to refer to care provided in secondary- and tertiary-care facilities from the onset of symptoms. Hospice and ...
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