End-of-life care (EOLC) is health care provided in the time leading up to a person's death. End-of-life care can be provided in the hours, days, or months...

Palliative care (derived from the Latin root palliare, or 'to cloak') is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life 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...

End-of-life may refer to: End-of-life (product), a term used with respect to terminating the sale or support of goods and services End-of-life care, medical...

Homecare (home care, in-home care), also known as domiciliary care, personal care or social care, is health care or supportive care provided in the individual...

placement of a feeding tube. Decisions about hydration and nutrition are generally the most ethically challenging when it comes to end-of-life care. In 1990...

days or hours of life. It was developed to help doctors and nurses provide quality end-of-life care, to transfer quality end-of-life care from the hospice...

and end-of-life care. Doctors in this specialty are often called intensive care physicians, critical care physicians, or intensivists. Intensive care relies...

and health care provider. For patients at the end of life, the device rarely prevents death as intended. Using the device at the end of life can cause...

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...

End-of-life planning may refer to: Estate planning Planning for end-of-life care End-of-life product planning This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

slogan describing freedom of choice on issues affecting the body and health, such as bodily autonomy, abortion and end-of-life care. The slogan emerged around...

have time to prepare for care, such as advance directives and living wills, which have been shown to improve end-of-life care. While death cannot be avoided...

amounts of training, and their professionalism also varies. The contributions of doulas during reproductive experiences and end-of-life care have been...

long-term care, nursing homes (often called residential care), hospice care, and home care. Elderly care emphasizes the social and personal requirements of senior...

to improvements in end of life care. Older adults are more directly concerned as they may experience a situation where advance care planning can be useful...

Healthcare is a provider of end-of-life care in the United States. Operating 53 hospice programs in 15 states and the District of Columbia, VITAS employs...

What Matters in the End is a 2014 non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. The book addresses end-of-life care, hospice care, and also contains...

preferences for end-of-life care and can help avoid unwanted interventions or procedures. Hospice care can improve symptom management at the end of life and increases...

discussions about end-of-life care include antihypertensives, medications for diabetes, and drugs for high cholesterol. For people with a life limiting condition...

acute management of schizophrenia when it is associated with aggressive or out-of-control behaviour. In the final stages of end-of-life care, midazolam is...

don't have the best elderly care and palliative care yet… So let's talk about making sure we have the best end-of-life care before we start talking about...

mask of Tutankhamun, and those from Mycenaean Greece such as the Mask of Agamemnon. When taken from a living subject, such a cast is called a life mask...

Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO) is an organization whose members provide end-of-life palliative care to terminal patients in the province of Ontario, Canada...

The End of Life Choice Act 2019 is an Act of Parliament in New Zealand that gives people with a terminal illness the option of receiving assisted suicide...

to die from, their families and carers, and it's the largest charitable UK funder of palliative and end-of-life care research. Marie Curie was founded...

rather associated with other umbrella terms, such as advanced care planning and end-of-life care. In conversations, people may use other terms depending on...

end-of-life care workers. From here, the care of deceased individuals has a culturally, religious, and personal course. This can involve a range of people...

receiving 'end-of-life' care after cancer spreads". STV News. Retrieved 2 November 2024. "Comedian Janey Godley receiving end-of-life care". BBC News...

coaching programs, and the use of social networks and computer-mediated communication; and to improve the quality of end-of-life care through peer-to-peer support...