Sentence examples for hospices from inspiring English sources

Whether they be nursing homes, geriatric hospitals or hospices, all seem to suffer a dire shortage of nursing staff.

The "Liverpool care pathway for the dying patient", first adopted in the north-western English city in the late 1990s, is now standard practice in most British hospitals and hospices.

A third, and more contentious, idea is to allow some life-prolonging care--perhaps experimental drugs and certain forms of chemotherapy--to give patients encouragement.Both sides of the euthanasia debate agree that the care hospices provide makes suicide less alluring for many of the terminally ill.

Hospices will have an even bigger role to play to support the end-of-life needs of an ageing population.David Praill Help the Hospices LondonElections in AsiaSIR – Banyan puzzled over the notion that Asian countries seem to be confused about democracy (January 11th).

Spain's Catalonia region is one of the rare places where hospices have been set up in a top-down way by the state.Elsewhere in Europe, every country has its own approach.

Now her beliefs enjoy wide acceptance.One sign of that change is the establishment of thousands of hospices, places dedicated to caring rather than curing.

One is the public awareness of the availability of hospices.

He is also credited with promoting hospices and the wider use of strong painkillers for the dying.

But fear of reprisals deterred most hospitals and hospices from taking her.On February 3rd, however, she was admitted to the clinic in Udine.

Life-sustaining (and often costly) treatments such as resuscitation and surgery are not allowed.The federal government has had a large hand in the development of hospices.

Although the best parts of her work had taken hold there are now more than 2,500 hospices in America her reputation was in ruins.Nor was her own death easy.