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Terminal Care
1

-- See Also Advance Care Planning


Discussions with patients and/or their representatives about the goals and desired direction of the patient's care, particularly end-of-life care, in the event that the patient is or becomes incompetent to make decisions
2

-- See Also Death



--subdivision Death and burial under names of individual persons; and subdivision Death under classes of persons and ethnic groups
3

-- See Also the narrower term Hospice care



--subdivision Hospice care under classes of persons and ethnic groups
4

-- See Also Hospice Care


Specialized health care, supportive in nature, provided to a dying person. A holistic approach is often taken, providing patients and their families with legal, financial, emotional, or spiritual counseling in addition to meeting patients' immediate physical needs. Care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialized facilities (HOSPICES), or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities. The concept also includes bereavement care for the family. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)
5

-- See Also Life Support Care


Care provided patients requiring extraordinary therapeutic measures in order to sustain and prolong life
6

-- See Also the narrower term Music thanatology


7

-- See Also Palliative Care


Care alleviating symptoms without curing the underlying disease. (Stedman, 25th ed)
8

-- See Also the narrower term Terminal care facilities


9

-- See Also the narrower term Terminal sedation


10

-- See Also the narrower term Volunteer workers in terminal care


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