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2. Talk about death, but live your life: What people working in ...

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   But for people who work in end-of-life care, such as hospice workers and death doulas, death is both a fact of the job and a part of their ... “People think hospice nursing is ...

3. Hospice - Wikipedia

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   Hospice. 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. Hospice care provides an alternative to therapies focused on ...

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. 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.

6. 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.

7. National Nursing Week: Hospice nurse recognized for ... - AOL

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   May 3—Jenna Fadden has always been passionate about helping others. After experiencing a lot of loss at a young age and then seeing her grandmother in hospice, she said she was drawn to be a nurse.