Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, Overcoming Barriers. Bruce Jennings and others.
by Jennings, Bruce; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 67Family. Publisher: Hastings Center Report, 2003ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Alzheimer's disease | Caregivers | Health services accessibility | Hospice care | Hospices (Terminal care) | Medical care -- Needs assessment | Medical ethics | Palliative treatment | Responsibility | Social values | Stockholders | Terminal care -- Religious aspects | Terminally illDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The nature of the care that dying patients and their families and loved ones receive is fundamentally a question of values and ends, not of technical details and means. It is fundamentally a statement about who we are as a nation and as a community, for our moral identity is nowhere better tested and tempered than in the respect and care we show to those in the twilight of life." (HASTINGS CENTER REPORT) This article defines hospice care, provides a history of end-of-life caregiving in the U.S. and examines the values involved in providing care to the dying.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, Overcoming Barriers, March/April 2003; pp. S6+.
"The nature of the care that dying patients and their families and loved ones receive is fundamentally a question of values and ends, not of technical details and means. It is fundamentally a statement about who we are as a nation and as a community, for our moral identity is nowhere better tested and tempered than in the respect and care we show to those in the twilight of life." (HASTINGS CENTER REPORT) This article defines hospice care, provides a history of end-of-life caregiving in the U.S. and examines the values involved in providing care to the dying.
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