What is required before a patient may be accepted into hospice care center?
A doctor's certification ( proving death sentence ) :(
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When should families start thinking about hospice?
With a doctor's recommendations or when end-of-life quality decreases
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How can support groups help a grieving individual?
discuss their experiences, share ideas, and provide emotional support for one another.
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Is hospice specific to the dying patient or is the family involved as well?
Both are treated in different ways
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What did Florence Wald do?
Opened the first hospice in the United States
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Is hospice only designed to only mitigate physical pain?
No
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What is the Kübler-Ross model?
A model that postulates a series of emotional stages experienced by survivors of an intimate's death, wherein the five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
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What is the main purpose of Hospice?
To improve the quality of life for a dying patient
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Who invented hospice?
Cicely Saunders
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Can you graduate hospice care?
Yes
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How long after receiving a doctor's referral can you be placed in hospice care?
48 hours
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Once a grieving individual moves on to the next step of grieving, do they continue to go through the steps in order and never go back?