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A hospice opened in 1980 in Harare (Salisbury), Zimbabwe, the first in Sub-Saharan Africa. [40] In spite of skepticism in the medical community, [38] the hospice movement spread, and in 1987 the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa formed. [41] In 1990, Nairobi Hospice opened in Nairobi, Kenya. [41]
The hospice movement in the United States became distinguished from that in Britain, according to Stephen Connor's Hospice: Practice, Pitfalls and Promise, by "a greater emphasis on use of volunteers and more focus on psychological preparation for death". [5]
Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders (22 June 1918 – 14 July 2005) was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine, and opposing the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia.
The movement took off in the U.S. in 1982 when Congress established the Medicare hospice benefit. It came about in part due to lobbying by a Methodist minister, Hugh Westbrook, who had started a nonprofit hospice a few years before in South Florida.
The modern hospice movement emerged as a reaction to the over-medicalization of death. Until the 1960s, the attitude of most health providers was that death was something to be fought, to the bitter end, no matter how painful the treatment or disheartening the experience.
Florence Wald (April 19, 1917 – November 8, 2008) was an American nurse, former Dean of Yale School of Nursing, and largely credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement". [1] [2] She led the founding of Connecticut Hospice, the first hospice program in the United States. Late in life, Wald became interested in the provision of ...
The first formal hospice was founded in 1948 by the British physician Dame Cicely Saunders in order to care for patients with terminal illnesses. [2] She defined key physical, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of distress in her work. She also developed the first hospice care as well in the US in 1974 - Connecticut Hospice. [3]
During the 1970's, Kübler-Ross became a champion of the worldwide hospice movement. She traveled to over twenty countries on six continents initiating various hospice and palliative care programs. In 1970, Kübler-Ross spoke at the prestigious Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard University on the subject of death and dying. [18]