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Purpose
History & Hospice Pioneers
Receiving Hospice Care
Family Care & Services
Grief & Grief Support
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Who receives hospice care?
Terminally Ill Patients
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Where was the first hospice?
London, England
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Is hospice expensive?
No, not necessarily
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No
Does hospice only help the patient?
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How many stages of grief are there?
5-7
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Does hospice attempt to cure illnesses?
Nope!
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What was the name of the first hospice?
St Christopher's Hospice
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Where can you receive hospice care?
Nursing homes, hospitals, or patient homes
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What is the most common service offered to the families of hospice patients?
Grief Support
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What are the 5 stages of grief?
1. Anger 2. Denial 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance
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What does hospice aim to do?
Make the patients comfortable in their deaths
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Where was the first hospice in the United States?
New Haven, Connecticut
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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?
Not necessarily, but they can