Synonyms for hospice
ˈhɒs pɪshos·pice

Princeton's WordNet

1. hospicenoun

   a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order)

2. hospicenoun

   a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill

Matched Categories

1. • Lodging
   • Medical Care

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1. List of paraphrases for "hospice":

   poorhouse, workhouse, palliative

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1. Samuel Dagogo-Jack:

   For example, we ca n’t check blood sugar noninvasively, we have to stick the patient’s finger or draw blood from a vein. So when in hospice, we relax the goals of treatment and we also make the decision of what is rational as far as the frequency in testing blood sugar levels. We have to practice the principle of doing no harm and maximizing the comfort of the patient.

2. Jon Radulovic:

   To get into hospice you have to acknowledge that a cure isn't possible but any treatment that is palliative in nature is fair game.

3. Scott Irwin:

   . Dr. Scott Irwin, director of palliative care psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, who was not connected with the study, said the lesson isn't that hospice care is costing too much. Costs should naturally go up because more people are using hospice and using it earlier, which is a really good thing.

4. Kelly Knievel:

   He was in hospice for about four days. He had advanced pancreatic cancer, he knew he was sick for probably six months.

5. Edo Banach:

   It is difficult to hear that someone is discontinuing treatment and a wave of sadness is going over Facebook, but hospice is not giving up, the reality is, people who chose hospice often live longer, and it's more of a holistic kind of care that provides social work and chaplaincy and support for the family and all those additional things that the hospital system doesn't really provide.