Hospice offers holistic support for individuals living with terminal illness and their caregivers.
Some individuals receiving hospice services experience a slower decline in health as than …

Background Most prefer to die at home, but the Medicare Hospice Benefit does not cover
custodial care, making it difficult for terminally ill patients with housing insecurity and/or …

Background: About half of hospice-eligible adults die without hospice each year.
Misconceptions about hospice are frequently identified as barriers to utilization, but hospice …

Background: Care transitions from the hospital to hospice are a difficult time, and gaps
during this transitions could cause poor care experiences and outcomes. However, little is …

Context For many, the perception of “hospice” is synonymous with “death.” Even clinicians
struggle to have conversations that distinguish between hospice and palliative care for fear …

This chapter provides an introduction to end‐of‐life social work practice. It defines end‐of‐
life care, including hospice, palliative care, and pediatric care, and describes the roles that …

Hospice is a medical service based on a holistic approach to providing quality end-of-life
care to patients. Typically, there is an interprofessional team focus led by a physician …

Hospice care in the United States focuses on the patient and family unit, aspiring to provide
high-quality end-of-life care. Support and palliation of symptoms by the hospice, allows the …

When Victoria Hospice began in 1980 as a small pilot project, we used the few available
tools in the literature at that time to assist in assessing our patients. One tool we regularly …