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MSH: 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),NCI: A program that provides special care for people who are near the end of life and for their families, either at home, in freestanding facilities, or within hospitals.,OMS: Activities that provide physical comfort and emotional calm for those who are dying by involving/including family, friends, spiritual concerns, rituals, pain control, and physical care.,MEDLINEPLUS: <p>Hospice care is <a href='http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/endoflifeissues.html'>end-of-life</a> care provid
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