hospice care
- Subj. Area:
- VII Prolongation of Life, Dying and Death
- Ger:
- Sterbebegleitung
- Fr:
- accompagnement des mourants
- History:
- previous indexing 'terminal care' (2004-2005), 'supportive care of the dying' (2005-2012)
- SN:
- Specialised 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 counselling in addition to meeting patients' immediate physical needs; care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialised facilities, or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities; the concept also includes bereavement care for the family (based on MeSH-2012)
- UF:
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bereavement care
supportive care of the dying
- UF+:
-
pastoral care of the dying
- RT:
-
allowing to die
death
family members
hospice movement
hospices
living wills
mourning
palliative care
quality of life
terminal care
terminally ill persons
- Conc:
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B: -
E: -
I: -
M: Hospice Care (D017051)
