Article: Ten Plus One Facts About Hospice
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Ten Plus One Facts About Hospice
1. Palliative Care means that a dying person is given care that is not curative; that will not sustain life. It will however, ensure that what life remains can be lived in comfort and without pain.
2. Hospice may be a place but is definitely a ?way?. It?s a method of offering palliative care to the terminally ill. It can take place in a definite location and be called a Hospice or it may be a way of allowing people to die with dignity at home.
3. Dame Cicely Saunders is the founder of the Hospice movement and started the first hospice in 1967 in England. The first hospice in U.S. began in 1974 by Florence Wald in Connecticut.
4. Some hospice patients have a DNR order nearby. It means Do Not Resuscitate as they want no heroic measures taken to pr...
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