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2. Palliative care - Wikipedia

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

3. American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

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   Official Web site [1] The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is a professional organization for physicians specializing in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Membership is open to all health care providers committed to improving the care of patients with serious or life-threatening ...

4. Hospice care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, hospice care is a type and philosophy of end-of-life care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms. These symptoms can be physical, emotional, spiritual, or social in nature. The concept of hospice as a place to treat the incurably ill has been evolving since the 11th century.

5. Hospice, Inc. - The Huffington Post

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   HuffPost found 759 hospices that haven’t been inspected in more than 6 years. Nursing home inspections, by contrast, are required by federal law at least every 15 months. Over a recent three-year span, 55 percent of all U.S. hospices were cited for a violation, many care-related, HuffPost found.

6. Hospice Check - The Huffington Post

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   Last Updated: Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014, 5:40 am EST. The Huffington Post has updated Hospice Check to reflect current inspection data. Since we first published this map in June, the number of hospices that haven’t been inspected in more than six years fell below 400, from 759. The average time since last inspection also fell, from 3 ½ years to ...

7. Jimmy Carter marks 1 year in hospice: 4 longevity lessons ...

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   Carter is 99. His 100th birthday is on Oct. 1, 2024. When he entered hospice a year ago, his family was preparing for his life to end within a week, but he keeps going. “We thought at the ...