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  2. Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment - Wikipedia

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    The "comfort measures" allow for natural death and only helps the individual relieve any pain. By checking this box, the individual also prefers to not be transferred within the hospital. [ 21 ] The "limited additional treatment" includes the comfort measures in addition to basic medical treatment. [ 21 ] “

  3. 5 Things You Need to Know When a Loved One Enters Hospice Care

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    Hospice care provides comfort measures to the patient and includes a family-centered approach. The care provided extends to family members even after their loved ones have passed.

  4. 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.

  5. Hospice - Wikipedia

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    A Hospice House in Missouri. 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.

  6. Hospice, Inc. - The Huffington Post

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    Hospices exist to provide comfort to people who doctors determine are at the end of their lives, with six months or less to live. The paramount objective, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, a trade association, is to make patients comfortable, with a focus “on enhancing the quality of remaining life.”

  7. Hospice care in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The goal of hospice agencies in the United States is to provide comfort to the patient and heighten quality of life. [15] How comfort is defined is up to the patient or, if the patient is incapacitated, the patient's family. This can mean freedom from physical, emotional, spiritual and/or social pain.

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