Hospice Care Today: Compassionate or McDonaldized?

Hospice Care: Comprehensive and Compassionate Care of the Terminally Ill

This article outlines crucial elements of Hospice care ~ stressing Hospice philosophy, types of care provided, the Interdisciplinary approach to patient and family support, specific experiences with dying patients, and the responsibility of Hospice to the care of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome patients. Most of I the information was based on experiences of St. Anthony’s Hospice and Life Enr...

Compassionate Care

What does Islam have to offer health-care ethics that cannot be found elsewhere? I do not mean to suggest that there is only one answer to this question, because there are many. However, I will focus on the elevated status of the patient as the recipient of compassionate care. Today, the primary medical ethical issue is no longer a quandary such as “Should we withdraw artificial nutrition and h...

Hospice care.

Palliative care for children with cancer--home, hospital, or hospice?

Although there has been a great improvement in prognosis for children with cancer it is still the cause of death for over 400 children in the United Kingdom each year.' 2 The care of adults who are dying of malignant disease has changed considerably over the last 20 years, with the development of palliative medicine and the building of hospices to offer a more suitable environment for the dying...

Measuring hospice care: the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization National Hospice Data Set.

Hospice has seen rapid growth in recent years, but there is a lack of consistency among hospices when it comes to compliance with standards of care. Consequently, hospices vary in performance and in services they provide. With state hospice organizations, the NHPCO developed a National Data Set (NDS) intended to understand demographics, practices, and outcomes; illustrate industry effectiveness...