Human Growth and Development / Unit 17 HGD 2424 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hospice Care
Captions available
The idea
Hospice care serves people with incurable conditions, typically with under six months to live, managing pain and meeting emotional and spiritual needs of patient and family.
In practice
Cicely Saunders founding the modern hospice movement in England in nineteen sixty-seven; Florence Wald founding the first US hospice in nineteen seventy-four.
Where people slip
Medicare began covering hospice in the nineteen eighties.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it · Sources for Human Growth and Development