People of any age, including children, may receive hospice services.
Hospice services are most often provided in the patient's home or place of residence.
The Web site provides a list of questions to ask when seeking hospice services.
Therefore the family must get along without Medicare-covered hospice services.
Many more would use hospice services if they were available on the same basis as curative medical care.
Hospice services are provided by a team of people that includes doctors, nurses, and volunteers.
Hospice services are not intended to speed up or prolong the dying process.
After the revolution, the hospice service was cut off; eventually, all hospital beds relocated to another building.
My mother finally did not require a "committed" doctor or a usable hospice service (although both would have helped).
There are now over 40 operational children's hospice services open across the UK.