Hospice meaning of word

This article is about the type of medical/psychological care. For other uses, see Hospice (disambiguation).

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 life-prolonging measures that may be arduous, likely to cause more symptoms, or are not aligned with a person’s goals.

Hospice care in the United States is largely defined by the practices of the Medicare system and other health insurance providers, which cover inpatient or at-home hospice care for patients with terminal diseases who are estimated to live six months or less. Hospice care under the Medicare Hospice Benefit requires documentation from two physicians estimating a person has less than six months to live if the disease follows its usual course. Hospice benefits include access to a multidisciplinary treatment team specialized in end-of-life care and can be accessed in the home, long-term care facility or the hospital.^[1]

Outside the United States, the term tends to be primarily associated with the particular buildings or institutions that specialize in such care. Such institutions may similarly provide care mostly in an end-of-life setting, but they may also be available for patients with other palliative care needs. Hospice care includes assistance for patients’ families to help them cope with what is happening and provide care and support to keep the patient at home.^[2]

The English word «hospice» is a borrowing from French. In France however, the word «hospice» refers more generally to an institution where sick and destitute people are cared for, and does not necessarily have a palliative connotation.

Philosophy[edit]

The goal of hospice care is to prioritize comfort, quality of life and individual wishes. How comfort is defined is up to each individual or, if the patient is incapacitated, the patient’s family. This can include addressing physical, emotional, spiritual and/or social needs. In hospice care, patient-directed goals are integral and interwoven throughout the care.^[3][4] Hospices typically do not perform treatments that are meant to diagnose or cure an illness but also do not include treatments that hasten death.^[1] Instead, hospices focus on palliative care to relieve pain and symptoms.^[4]

History overview[edit]

Early development[edit]

The word «hospice» derives from Latin hospitum, meaning hospitality or place of rest and protection for the ill and weary.^[1] Historians believe the first hospices originated in Malta around 1065, dedicated to caring for the ill and dying en route to and from the Holy Land.^[5] The rise of the European Crusading movement in the 1090s placed the incurably ill into places dedicated to treatment.^[6][7] In the early 14th century, the order of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John of Jerusalem opened the first hospice in Rhodes.^[8] Hospices flourished in the Middle Ages, but languished as religious orders became dispersed.^[6] They were revived in the 17th century in France by the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul.^[8] France continued to see development in the hospice field; the hospice of L’Association des Dames du Calvaire, founded by Jeanne Garnier, opened in 1843.^[9] Six other hospices followed before 1900.^[9]

Meanwhile, hospices developed in other areas. In the United Kingdom attention was drawn to the needs of the terminally ill in the middle of the 19th century, with Lancet and the British Medical Journal publishing articles pointing to the need of the impoverished terminally ill for good care and sanitary conditions.^[10] Steps were taken to remedy inadequate facilities with the opening of the Friedenheim in London, which by 1892 offered 35 beds to patients dying of tuberculosis.^[10] Four more hospices were established in London by 1905,^[10] including the Hostel of God on Clapham Common founded in 1891 by Clara Maria Hole, Mother Superior of Sisterhood of St James’ (Anglican) and taken over in 1896 by the Society of Saint Margaret of East Grinstead.^[11] Australia, too, saw active hospice development, with notable hospices including the Home for Incurables in Adelaide (1879), the Home of Peace (1902) and the Anglican House of Peace for the Dying in Sydney (1907).^[12] In 1899 New York City, the Servants for Relief of Incurable Cancer opened St. Rose’s Hospice, which soon expanded to six locations in other cities.^[9]

The more influential early developers of hospice included the Irish Religious Sisters of Charity, who opened Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross, Dublin, Ireland in 1879.^[9] It served many as 20,000 people—primarily with tuberculosis and cancer—dying there between 1845 and 1945.^[9] The Sisters of Charity expanded internationally, opening the Sacred Heart Hospice for the Dying in Sydney in 1890, with hospices in Melbourne and New South Wales following in the 1930s.^[13] In 1905, they opened St Joseph’s Hospice in London.^[8][14]

Hospice movement[edit]

In Western society, the concept of hospice began evolving in Europe in the 11th century. In Roman Catholic tradition, hospices were places of hospitality for the sick, wounded, or dying, as well as for travelers and pilgrims. The modern hospice concept includes palliative care for the incurably ill in institutions as hospitals and nursing homes, along with at-home care. The first modern hospice care was created by Dame Cicely Saunders in 1967. Saunders was a British registered nurse whose chronic health problems forced her to pursue a career in medical social work. The relationship she developed with a dying Polish refugee helped solidify her ideas that terminally ill patients needed compassionate care to help address their fears and concerns as well as palliative comfort for physical symptoms.^[15] After the refugee’s death, Saunders began volunteering at St Luke’s Home for the Dying Poor, where a physician told her that she could best influence the treatment of the terminally ill as a physician.^[15] Saunders entered medical school while continuing her volunteer work at St. Joseph’s. When she completed her degree in 1957, she took a position there.^[15]

Saunders emphasized focusing on the patient rather than the disease and introduced the notion of ‘total pain’,^[16] which included psychological and spiritual as well as physical discomfort. She experimented with opioids for controlling physical pain. She also considered the needs of the patient’s family. She developed many foundational principles of modern hospice care at St Joseph’s.^[8] Over the years these centers became more common and from the 1970s this is where they placed people to live out their final days.^[17]

She disseminated her philosophy internationally in a series of tours of the United States that began in 1963.^[18][19] In 1967, Saunders opened St Christopher’s Hospice. Florence Wald, the dean of Yale School of Nursing, who had heard Saunders speak in America, spent a month working with Saunders there in 1969 before bringing the principles of modern hospice care back to the United States, establishing Hospice, Inc. in 1971.^[8][20] Another early hospice program in the United States, Alive Hospice, was founded in Nashville, Tennessee, on November 14, 1975.^[21] By 1977 the National Hospice Organization had been formed, and by 1979, a president, Ann G. Blues, had been elected and principles of hospice care had been addressed.^[22] At about the same time that Saunders was disseminating her theories and developing her hospice, in 1965, Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross began to consider social responses to terminal illness, which she found inadequate at the Chicago hospital where her American physician husband was employed.^[23] Her 1969 best-seller, On Death and Dying, influenced the medical profession’s response to the terminally ill.^[23] Saunders and other thanatology pioneers helped to focus attention on the types of care available to them.^[18]

In 1984, Dr. Josefina Magno, who had been instrumental in forming the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and sat as first executive director of the US National Hospice Organization, founded the International Hospice Institute, which in 1996 became the International Hospice Institute and College and later the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC).^[24][25] The IAHPC follows the philosophy that each country should develop a palliative care model based on its own resources and conditions.^[26] IAHPC founding member Dr. Derek Doyle told the British Medical Journal in 2003 that Magno had seen «more than 8000 hospice and palliative services established in more than 100 countries.»^[25] Standards for Palliative and Hospice Care have been developed in countries including Australia, Canada, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.^[27]

In 2006, the United States-based National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the United Kingdom’s Help the Hospices jointly commissioned an independent, international study of worldwide palliative care practices. Their survey found that 15% of the world’s countries offered widespread palliative care services with integration into major health care institutions, while an additional 35% offered some form of palliative care services, in some cases localized or limited.^[28] As of 2009, an estimated 10,000 programs internationally provided palliative care, although the term hospice is not always employed to describe such services.^[29]

In hospice care, the main guardians are the family care giver(s) and a hospice nurse/team who make periodic visits. Hospice can be administered in a nursing home, hospice building, or sometimes a hospital; however, it is most commonly practiced in the home.^[30] Hospice care targets the terminally ill who are expected to die within six months.

Popular media[edit]

Hospice was the subject of the Netflix 2018 Academy Award-nominated^[31] short documentary End Game,^[32] about terminally ill patients in a San Francisco hospital and Zen Hospice Project, featuring the work of palliative care physician BJ Miller and other palliative care clinicians. The film was executive produced by hospice and palliative care activist Shoshana R. Ungerleider.^[33]

National variations[edit]

Hospice faced resistance from cultural and professional taboos against open communication about death among healthcare providers and the wider population, discomfort with unfamiliar medical techniques and perceived professional callousness towards the terminally ill.^[34] Nevertheless, the movement has spread throughout the world.^[35]

Africa[edit]

A hospice opened in 1980 in Harare (Salisbury), Zimbabwe, the first in Sub-Saharan Africa.^[36] In spite of skepticism in the medical community,^[34] the hospice movement spread, and in 1987 the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa formed.^[37] In 1990, Nairobi Hospice opened in Nairobi, Kenya.^[37] As of 2006, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda were among 35 countries offering widespread, well-integrated palliative care.^[37] Programs adopted the United Kingdom model, but emphasise home-based assistance.^[38]

Following the foundation of hospice in Kenya in the early 1990s, palliative care spread throughout the country. Representatives of Nairobi Hospice sit on the committee to develop a Health Sector Strategic Plan for the Ministry of Health and work with the Ministry of Health to help develop palliative care guidelines for cervical cancer.^[37] The Government of Kenya supported hospice by donating land to Nairobi Hospice and providing funding to several of its nurses.^[37]

In South Africa, hospice services are widespread, focusing on diverse communities (including orphans and homeless) and offered in diverse settings (including in-patient, day care and home care).^[37] Over half of hospice patients in South Africa in the 2003–2004 year were diagnosed with AIDS, with the majority of the remaining diagnosed with cancer.^[37] Palliative care is supported by the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa and by national programmes partly funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.^[37]

Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU), founded by Anne Merriman, began offering services in 1993 in a two-bedroom house loaned for the purpose by Nsambya Hospital.^[37] HAU has since expanded to a base of operations at Makindye, Kampala, with hospice services offered at roadside clinics by Mobile Hospice Mbarara since January 1998. That same year the Little Hospice Hoima opened in June. Hospice care in Uganda is supported by community volunteers and professionals, as Makerere University offers a distance diploma in palliative care.^[39] The government of Uganda published a strategic plan for palliative care that permits nurses and clinical officers from HAU to prescribe morphine.

North America[edit]

Canada[edit]

Canadian physician Balfour Mount, who first coined the term «palliative care», was a pioneer in medical research and in the Canadian hospice movement, which focused primarily on palliative care in a hospital setting.^[40][41] Having read Kübler-Ross, Mount studied the experiences of the terminally ill at Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal; the «abysmal inadequacy», as he termed it, that he found prompted him to spend a week with Cicely Saunders at St. Christopher’s.^[42] Mount decided to adapt Saunders’ model for Canada. Given differences in medical funding, he determined that a hospital-based approach would be more affordable, creating a specialized ward at Royal Victoria in January, 1975.^[41][42] Canada’s official languages include English and French, leading Mount to propose the term «palliative care ward», as the word hospice was already used in France to refer to nursing homes.^[41][42] Hundreds of palliative care programs then followed throughout Canada through the 1970s and 1980s.^[43]

However, as of 2004, according to the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA), hospice palliative care was only available to 5-15% of Canadians, with government funding declining.^[44] At that time, Canadians were increasingly expressing a desire to die at home, but only two of Canada’s ten provinces were provided medication cost coverage for home care.^[44] Only four of ten identified palliative care as a core health service.^[44] At that time, palliative care was not widely taught at nursing schools or universally certified at medical colleges; only 175 specialized palliative care physicians served all of Canada.^[44]

United States[edit]

Hospice in the United States has grown from a volunteer-led movement to improve care for people dying alone, isolated, or in hospitals, to a significant part of the health care system. In 2010, an estimated 1.581 million patients received hospice services. Hospice is the only Medicare benefit that includes pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, twenty-four-hour/seven-day-a-week access to care, and support for loved ones following a death. Hospice care is covered by Medicaid and most private insurance plans.^[45] Most hospice care is delivered at home. Hospice care is available to people in home-like hospice residences, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, veterans’ facilities, hospitals and prisons.

Florence Wald, Dean of the Yale School of Nursing, founded one of the first hospices in the United States in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1974.^[4] The first hospital-based palliative care consultation service developed in the US was the Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1985 at Detroit Receiving Hospital.^[46] The first US-based palliative medicine and hospice service program was started in 1987 by Declan Walsh at the Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center in Cleveland, Ohio.^[47] The program evolved into The Harry R. Horvitz Center for Palliative Medicine, which was designated as a World Health Organization international demonstration project and accredited by the European Society of Medical Oncology as an Integrated Center of Oncology and Palliative Care. Other programs followed; some notable ones are: the Palliative Care Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin (1993); Pain and Palliative Care Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (1996); and The Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (1997).

In 1982, Congress initiated the creation of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, which became permanent in 1986. In 1993, President Clinton installed hospice as a guaranteed benefit and an accepted component of health care provisions.^[48] As of 2017, 1.49 million Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in hospice care for one day or more, which is a 4.5% increase from the previous year.^[49] From 2014 to 2019, Asian- and Hispanic-identifying beneficiaries of hospice care increased by 32% and 21% respectively.^[49]

United Kingdom[edit]

The first hospice to open in the United Kingdom was the Trinity Hospice in Clapham south London in 1891, on the initiative of the Hoare banking family.^[50] More than half a century later, a hospice movement developed after Dame Cicely Saunders opened St Christopher’s Hospice in 1967, widely considered the first modern hospice. According to the UK’s Help the Hospices, in 2011 UK hospice services consisted of 220 inpatient units for adults with 3,175 beds, 42 inpatient units for children with 334 beds, 288 home care services, 127 hospice at-home services, 272 day care services, and 343 hospital support services.^[51] These services together helped over 250,000 patients in 2003 and 2004. Funding varies from 100% funding by the National Health Service to almost 100% funding by charities, but the service is always free to patients. The UK’s palliative care has been ranked as the best in the world «due to comprehensive national policies, the extensive integration of palliative care into the National Health Service, a strong hospice movement, and deep community engagement on the issue.»^[52]

As of 2006, about 4% of all deaths in England and Wales occurred in a hospice setting (about 20,000 patients);^[53] a further number of patients spent time in a hospice, or were helped by hospice-based support services, but died elsewhere.

Hospices also provide volunteering opportunities for over 100,000 people in the UK, whose economic value to the hospice movement has been estimated at over £112 million.^[54]

Egypt[edit]

According to the Global Atlas of Palliative Care at the End of Life, 78% of adults and 98% of children in need of palliative care at the end of life live in low and middle-income countries. Nevertheless, hospice and palliative care provision in Egypt is limited and sparsely available relative to the size of the population.^[55] Some of the obstacles to the development of these services have included the lack of public awareness, restricted availability of opioids, and the absence of a national hospice and palliative care development plan.^[56] Key efforts made in the past 10 years have been initiated by individuals allowing for the emergence of the first non-governmental organisation providing primarily home-based hospice services in 2010,^[57] the opening of one palliative medicine unit at Cairo University in 2008 and an inpatient palliative care unit in Alexandria.^[56]

Models of both home-based care and stand-alone hospices exist globally, but with the cultural and societal preferences of patients and their families to die at home in Egypt there is an inclination to focus on the development of home-based hospice and palliative care services.^[58]

Israel[edit]

The first hospice unit in Israel opened in 1983.^[59] More than two decades later, a 2016 study found that 46% of the general Israeli public had never heard of it, despite the 70% of physicians who reported that they had the skill to treat patients according to palliative principles.^[60]

Other nations[edit]

Hospice Care in Australia predated the opening of St Christophers in London by 79 years. The Irish Sisters of Charity opened hospices in Sydney (1889) and in Melbourne (1938). The first hospice in New Zealand opened in 1979.^[61] Hospice care entered Poland in the mid-1970s.^[62] Japan opened its first hospice in 1981, officially hosting 160 by July 2006.^[63] India’s first hospice, Shanti Avedna Ashram, opened in Bombay in 1986.^{[64][65][66][67]} The first hospice in the Nordics opened in Tampere, Finland in 1988.^[68] The first modern free-standing hospice in China opened in Shanghai in 1988.^[69] The first hospice unit in Taiwan, where the term for hospice translates as «peaceful care», opened in 1990.^[34][70] The first free-standing hospice in Hong Kong, where the term for hospice translates as «well-ending service», opened in 1992.^[34][71]

The International Hospice Institute was founded in 1984.^[4]

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day[edit]

In 2006, the first World Hospice and Palliative Care Day was organised by the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance, a network of hospice and palliative care national and regional organisations that support the development of hospice and palliative care worldwide. The event takes place on the second Saturday of October every year.^[72]

Hospice home health[edit]

Nurses that work in hospice in the home healthcare setting aim to relieve pain and holistically support their patient and the patient’s family. Patients can receive hospice care when they have less than six months to live or would like to shift the focus of care from curative to comfort care. The goal of hospice care is to meet the needs of both the patient and family, knowing that a home death is not always the best outcome. Medicare covers all costs of hospice treatment.^[73]

The hospice home health nurse must be skilled in both physical care and psychosocial care. Most nurses will work with a team that includes a physician, social worker and possibly a spiritual care counselor. Some of the nurse’s duties will include reassuring family members, and ensuring adequate pain control. The nurse will need to explain to the patient and family that a pain-free death is possible, and scheduled opioid pain medications are appropriate in this case. The nurse will need to work closely with the medical provider to ensure that dosing is appropriate, and in the case of tolerance, the dose is raised. The nurse should be aware of cultural differences and needs and should aim to meet them. The nurse will also support the family after death and connect the family to bereavement services.^[73]

In mid-February 2023, former US president Jimmy Carter announced that he had decided to forgo further medical treatment and will “spend his remaining time at home with his family.” ^[74]

See also[edit]

• Children’s hospice
• Deathbed phenomena
• Death midwife
• Hospice chaplain
• Life support
• Opioid
• Pain management
• Robert Twycross
• Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Saunders, Cicely M.; Robert Kastenbaum (1997). Hospice Care on the International Scene. Springer Pub. Co. ISBN 0-8261-9580-6.
• Szeloch Henryk, Hospice as a place of pastoral and palliative care over a badly ill person, Wyd. UKSW Warszawa 2012, ISSN 1895-3204
• Worpole, Ken, Modern Hospice Design: the architecture of palliative care, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-45179-6

External links[edit]

Media related to Hospice at Wikimedia Commons

Last Updated:
31 Mar 2023
— Updated example sentences

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French hospice, from Old French hospise, from Latin hospitium (“hospitality, an inn”). Doublet of hospitium.

Pronunciation[edit]

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑspɪs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒspɪs/
• Rhymes: (US) -ɑspɪs

Noun[edit]

hospice (countable and uncountable, plural hospices)

1. (countable, dated) A lodging for pilgrims or the destitute, normally provided by a monastic order.
2. (uncountable) The provision of palliative care for terminally ill patients, either at a specialized facility or at a residence, and support for the family, typically refraining from taking extraordinary measures to prolong life.
   • 2002, Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association, Statement on the Scope and Standards of Hospice and Palliative Nursing Assistant Practice, page 2,

     The modern concept of hospice and palliative nursing has its roots in the hospice movement. Introduced to the United States in the early 1960s, hospice has grown from one organization in 1971 to more than 3500 organizations in 2001.

   • 2007, Iraida V. Carrion, End of Life Issues among Hispanics/Latinos, page 52,

     Thus, the introduction of hospice services marked a new beginning, not only for the care of the dying, but also for the practice of medicine as a whole.

   • 2013, Kathleen Garces-Foley, Chapter 1: Hospice and the Politics of Spirituality, Paul Bramadat, Harold Coward, Kelli I. Stajduhar (editors), Spirituality in Hospice Palliative Care, page 13,

     With the emergence of the modern hospice movement and its institutionalization in the 1970s, however, the religious dimension of hospice moved considerably away from its Christian roots. While it is widely agreed that hospice ought to be concerned with the spiritual needs of the dying, how to do this in a pluralistic society is far from clear.

   • 2023 February 18, Peter Baker, “Jimmy Carter, 98, Opts for Hospice Care”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Former President Jimmy Carter, who at 98 is the longest living president in American history, has decided to forgo further medical treatment and will enter hospice care at his home in Georgia, the Carter Center announced on Saturday.

3. (countable) A specialized facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill.
   • 2001, Robert J. Buchanan, James D. Minor, Legal Aspects of Health Care Reimbursement, page 97,

     Medicare reimbursement of hospice care is likely to be affected by the apparent reluctance of hospices to participate in the Medicare program.

   • 2009, Andrea Fontana, Jennifer Reid Keene, Death and Dying in America, page 36,

     A small number of hospices were opened in the US in the 1890s, but these institutions differed from the hospices that came into being in the second part of the twentieth century in the following ways.

   • 2009, June L. Leishman, Chapter 6: Developments in end-of-life care, June Leishman (editor), Perspectives on Death and Dying, page 87,

     St Joseph’s Hospice Association in Liverpool supports hospices in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and Peru, as well as having links with hospices in India, Pakistan and Mexico that bear the same name.

[edit]

• hospital
• hospitable

Translations[edit]

Further reading[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French hospise, borrowed from Latin hospitium.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ɔs.pis/

• Audio (Switzerland)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -is

Noun[edit]

hospice m (plural hospices)

1. hospice

[edit]

• hôpital
• hôte

Further reading[edit]

• “hospice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

1	0   0 A program or facility that provides special care for people who are near the end of life and for their families. Hospice care can be provided at home, in a hospice or other freestanding facility, or within a hospital.

2	0   0 Hospice A program that gives special care to people who are near the end of life and have stopped treatment to cure or control their disease. Hospice offers physical, emotional, social, and spiritual support [..]

3	0   0 Hospice A special way of caring for people who are terminally ill. Hospice care involves a team-oriented approach that addresses the medical, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient. H [..]

4	0   0 Hospice Care provided to terminally ill patients and their families that emphasize emotional needs and coping with pain and death.

5	0   0 Hospice A family-centered system of care that attempts to keep chronically ill and terminal patients as comfortable and active as possible.

6	0   0 Hospice 1818, «rest house for travelers,» especially the houses of refuge and shelter kept by monks in the passes of the Alps, from French hospice «hospital, almshouse» (Old French ospice [..]

7	0   0 Hospice A facility or program that provides care for a terminally ill patient.

8	0   0 Hospice A service that provides supportive health care for the terminally ill.

9	0   0 Hospice A facility or service that gives care to terminally ill patients, as well as support to the family. The care is often for controlling pain and other symptoms, and can be provided in the home or in an [..]

10	0   0 Hospice A specialized program for individuals who have a terminal condition. Highly trained staff care for the resident as well as the family members, helping them through this emotional period.

11	0   0 Hospice Caring for the terminally ill within the home.

12	0   0 Hospice Hospices are organizations that provide alternative care for people who are dying and their families. Their approach is a much more humanistic approach toward dying, in the sense that they view death [..]

13	0   0 Hospice A hospital or an area of a hospital dedicated to treating people who are dying, often of a specific cause

14	0   0 Hospice A residential health care facility that provides medical care and support services to terminally ill patients and counseling to their families.

15	0   0 Hospice Hospice is a program or facility that provides special care for people who are near the end of life.

16	0   0 Hospice An organization designed to provide care and comfort for terminally ill persons and their families.

17	0   0 Hospice A program of medical and social services for people diagnosed with terminal (end-stage) illnesses that focuses on comfort, not curing an illness. Hospice services can be given at home, in a hospital, [..]

18	0   0 Hospice (n) a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order)(n) a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill

19	0   0 Hospice A concept of supportive care to meet the special needs of patients and family during the terminal stages of illness. The care may be delivered in the home or hospital by a specially trained team of pr [..]

20	0   0 Hospice A program designed for caring for terminally ill patients and their families.

21	0   0 Hospice This is a type of nursing and supportive care for patients who are ill and near death. This care can occur in a facility or at home.

22	0   0 Hospice Literal meaning «a place of shelter.» Today it refers to supportive care of a terminally ill patient. A program which provides palliative and supportive care for terminally ill patients and [..]

23	0   0 Hospice «A public or private organization that provides pain relief, symptom management, and supportive services to terminally ill people and their families in the home or in a separate hospice facility.»

24	0   0 Hospice Facilities or services which are especially devoted to providing palliative and supportive care to the Patient with a terminal illness and to the Patient’s Family.

25	0   0 Hospice A hospice is a facility or program that provides care for people who are terminally ill. Hospice care involves a team-oriented approach that addresses the medical, physical, social, emotional and spir [..]

26	0   0 Hospice Health care facility providing medical care and support services such as counseling to terminally ill persons.

27	0   0 Hospice This refers to medical care and treatment for persons who are terminally ill.

28	0   0 Hospice A facility or Home Health Care Agency that provides care for the terminally ill member and who provides support to the family. The care, primarily for pain control and symptom relief, can be provided in the home or in an inpatient setting.

29	0   0 Hospice A program that provides care to the terminally ill.

30	0   0 Hospice Inpatient, outpatient, or home healthcare for terminally ill patients.

31	0   0 Hospice A program that provides care to the terminally ill.

32	0   0 Hospice Group that offers inpatient, outpatient, and home healthcare for terminally ill patients.

33	0   0 Hospice a health care facility providing medical care and support services, such as counseling, to terminally ill people and their families.

34	0   0 Hospice An organization that provides pain relief, symptom management and supportive services for the terminally ill and their families. Hospice care is covered under Part A of Medicare.

35	0   0 Hospice A concept of supportive care to meet the special needs of patients and family during the terminal stages of illness. The care may be delivered in the home or hospital by a specially trained team of professionals.

36	0   0 Hospice A program that provides special care for people who are near the end of life and for their families, either at home, in freestanding facilities, or within hospitals.

37	0   0 Hospice A place which provides comprehensive care for people with incurable disease. This includes in-patient medical care, respite care and care of the dying person if he or she is not able to die at home. H [..]

38	0   0 Hospice A formal program of palliative care for a person in the last six months of life, providing pain management, symptom control, and family support.

39	0   0 Hospice A program or facility that provides special care for people who are near the end of life and for their families. Hospice care can be provided at home, in a hospice or another freestanding facility, or within a hospital.

40	0   0 Hospice A type of hospital

41	0   0 Hospice A specialized program for individuals who have a terminal condition. Highly trained staff care for the resident as well as the family members, helping them through this emotional period.

42	0   0 Hospice A program that provides care for the terminally ill in the form of pain relief, counseling, and support, either at home or in a facility.

43	0   0 Hospice A place that provides comprehensive care for people with a life-limiting illness. This includes inpatient medical care, respite care and end-of-life care for people who are unable to be cared for at h [..]

Dictionary.university is a dictionary written by people like you and me.
Please help and add a word. All sort of words are welcome!

Add meaning

хоспис, приют, богадельня, странноприимный дом, гостиница

существительное

- монастырская гостиница
- ист. странноприимный дом
- приют; богадельня
- студенческое общежитие; рабочее общежитие
- хоспис, «дом упокоения», больница для безнадёжных пациентов

Примеры с переводом

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Формы слова

noun
ед. ч.(singular): hospice
мн. ч.(plural): hospices

Educalingo cookies are used to personalize ads and get web traffic statistics. We also share information about the use of the site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.

Download the app
educalingo

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

Eleanor Clift

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HOSPICE

From French, from Latin hospitium hospitality, from hospes guest, host1.

PRONUNCIATION OF HOSPICE

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOSPICE

Hospice is a noun.

WHAT DOES HOSPICE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hospice in the English dictionary

The definition of hospice in the dictionary is a nursing home that specializes in caring for the terminally ill. Other definition of hospice is Also called: hospitium, Word forms: plural hospitia a place of shelter for travellers, esp one kept by a monastic order.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOSPICE

SYNONYMS OF «HOSPICE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hospice» and belong to the same grammatical category.

TRANSLATION OF HOSPICE

Find out the translation of hospice to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOSPICE»

The term «hospice» is very widely used and occupies the 8.904 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.

Principal search tendencies and common uses of hospice

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOSPICE» OVER TIME

7 QUOTES WITH «HOSPICE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hospice.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOSPICE»

Discover the use of hospice in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hospice and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOSPICE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hospice is used in the context of the following news items.

REFERENCE

« EDUCALINGO. Hospice [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/hospice>. Apr 2023 ».

hos·pice

 (hŏs′pĭs)

n.

1. A shelter or lodging for travelers, pilgrims, foundlings, or the destitute, especially one maintained by a monastic order.

2. A program that provides palliative care and attends to the emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill patients at an inpatient facility or at the patient’s home.

---

[French, from Old French, from Latin hospitium, hospitality, from hospes, hospit-, host; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

hospice

(ˈhɒspɪs)

n, pl hospicespl hospitia (hɒˈspɪtɪə)

1. (Medicine) a nursing home that specializes in caring for the terminally ill

2. archaic Also called: hospitium a place of shelter for travellers, esp one kept by a monastic order

[C19: from French, from Latin hospitium hospitality, from hospes guest, host¹]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

hos•pice

(ˈhɒs pɪs)

n.

1. a house of shelter or rest for pilgrims, strangers, etc., esp. one kept by a religious order.

2. a health care facility, or a system of professional home visits and supervision, for supportive care of the terminally ill.

[1810–20; < French < Latin hospitium=hospit-, s. of hospes host¹, guest, stranger + -ium -ium¹]

Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Translations