Specialized health care, supportive in nature, provided to a dying person. A holistic approach is often taken, providing patients and their families with legal, financial, emotional, or spiritual counseling in addition to meeting patients' immediate physical needs. Care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialized facilities (HOSPICES), or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities. The concept also includes bereavement care for the family. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)

Annotation

for the dying; /psychol permitted

DUI

D017051 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0025909

Previous indexing

Hospices (1977-1991)

History note

92

Public note

92