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. Jon Radulovic:

   With the Brown family, there will probably be a lot of very difficult issues after Bobbi Kristina has passed away, and the hospice bereavement team would be there to help. [They] can hopefully offer support whether it is something that is a spiritual problem or a family dynamic issue.

2. 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.

3. Susanna Schrobsdorff:

   We didn't think, 'Oh, I'll be running around taking my 6-year-old to play dates and meeting with my dad's hospice nurse simultaneously,'.

4. 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.

5. Jon Radulovic:

   This harkens back to the foundation of hospice in the country when it was volunteer-driven.