What is Hospice?? Hospice care is a compassionate method of caring for terminally ill people. Hospice is a medically directed, interdisciplinary team-managed program of services that focuses on the patient/family as the unit of care. Hospice care is palliative rather than curative, with an emphasis on pain and symptom control, so that a person may live the last days of life fully, with dignity and comfort, at home or in a home-like setting.
Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death. It affirms life, recognizes dying as a part of the normal process of living, and focuses on maintaining the quality of remaining life.
