Hospice_Care

Hospice Care Hospice Care Introduction The hospice care movement was born out of the concern for doing something for terminally ill and dying patients. Once medical care services for our terminally ill patients were no longer of benefit and our physicians could do no more, we had to turn to another source of care. One of the main objectives of the medical staff is to prolong life at all costs. When the medical staff no longer has the upper hand or mastery over disease and death, that’s when alternative care, such as hospice care can be provided. The hospice practice as it is today and as it was in the past focused on the control of pain for the terminally ill. Hospice care not only manages pain control but it also focuses on the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of the patient and their families. Hospice care focuses on reducing high hospital cost for the terminally ill too. Once the hospice care movement was accepted into our society, society was ready to talk about death and dying and caring for terminally ill patients. Our society was ready to support the hospice care movement hospice, care, terminally, ill, patient, patients, family, movement, life, love, death, first, support, pain, hope, through, one, must, medical, hospital, families, quality, patient’s, know, states, st, saunders, home, health, control, united, staff, dr, society, provided