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  2. End-of-life care - Wikipedia

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    End-of-life care (EOLC) is health care provided in the time leading up to a person's death.End-of-life care can be provided in the hours, days, or months before a person dies and encompasses care and support for a person's mental and emotional needs, physical comfort, spiritual needs, and practical tasks.

  3. Terminal illness - Wikipedia

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    Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer, dementia, advanced heart disease, and for HIV/AIDS, or long COVID in bad cases, rather than for injury.

  4. Palliative care - Wikipedia

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    Palliative care (derived from the Latin root palliare, meaning "to cloak") is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimising quality of life and mitigating or reducing suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. [1] Within the published literature, many definitions of palliative care exist.

  5. Palliative sedation - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...

  6. Heroic measure - Wikipedia

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    Generally, taking a heroic measure in attempts to save someone's life towards the end is more costly than pursuing non-heroic measures for treatment. [15] Overall, this raises questions and concerns regarding the cost of a person's life and if this is a factor that should be taken into consideration during end-of-life planning.

  7. Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment - Wikipedia

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    POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) is an approach to improving end-of-life care in the United States, encouraging providers to speak with the severely ill and create specific medical orders to be honored by health care workers during a medical crisis. [1]

  8. Hospice - Wikipedia

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    Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life by reducing pain and suffering.

  9. End-of-life - Wikipedia

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    End-of-life may refer to: End-of-life (product), a term used with respect to terminating the sale or support of goods and services; End-of-life care, medical care for patients with terminal illnesses or conditions that have become advanced, progressive and incurable; End of Life Vehicles Directive, European Community legislation