(n.) A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.
Example Sentences:
(1) At present, fewer than 20% do so, with more than half of all deaths happening in hospital and the rest in hospices or care homes.
(2) A big majority, 60%, died in hospital; 20% in care homes, like my father; 6% in hospices, like my mother.
(3) This paper describes the results of a survey on the form and function of hospice bereavement services completed by NHO Provider Member hospices.
(4) Fifty-seven of the allegations took place in 14 hospitals and a hospice in the UK.
(5) Fraser discusses the results and implications of a survey conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services to determine the impact on hospices of the Medicare reimbursement program authorized by Congress in 1983.
(6) The authors present a conceptual framework for working with hospice families as clients.
(7) The ethical dimensions of availability and accessibility of hospice care to dying persons and their families are discussed.
(8) We suggest a framework by which AIDS patients may be accommodated in existing hospice programs while maintaining hospice program integrity.
(9) Immediately after the verdicts two Surrey-based charities, Shooting Star Chase and the Woking & Sam Beare Hospices, said that Clifford would no longer be their patron.
(10) Purdy, who had been in the city’s Marie Curie hospice for a year and had been refusing food, died on 23 December.
(11) For charitable services to Hope House Children's Hospice, Wrexham.
(12) Hume, whose grantmaking credentials include leading a £500m cancer and palliative care grant programme for the Big Lottery Fund, refutes the notion that hospices will lose out.
(13) This study compared the ability of hospice and conventional care settings to meet the basic emotional needs of families during a member's dying and death from cancer.
(14) The theories and techniques of crisis intervention are discussed as they apply to teaching patients and families in the home hospice setting.
(15) From November 1982 to September 1987, 69 patients in the Seirei Hospice have been treated with such radiotherapy, and symptomatic relief was obtained in 64% of these patients.
(16) The clinical problems encountered over four years are described to illustrate the factors that affect prescribing, which makes caring for a dying patient at home different from that in hospital or even in a hospice.
(17) Hospice day care is a cost-effective way to expand the range of services available to hospice patients and families.
(18) Because clients' grief experiences differ, as well as their personalities, coping styles, and circumstances, a hospice should be prepared to offer a variety of bereavement services.
(19) The hospice approach embodies the principles of pharmacological therapy and social, spiritual, and emotional support for the patient and family.
(20) This was done in order to show in detail the effects of hospice home care on the quality of life of terminally ill patients and to provide rationale for setting up more hospice home care programs in korea.
Pilgrim
Definition:
(n.) A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
(n.) One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.
(v. i.) To journey; to wander; to ramble.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
(2) This approximately 40-Myr-old specimen is the first fossil primate found in Burma since the fragmentary remains of the controversial earliest anthropoids Pondaungia cotteri Pilgrim and Amphipithecus mogaungensis Colbert were recovered more than 50 yr ago.
(3) There were 18 primary cases amongst pilgrims returning from Mecca and 15 subsequent cases among Muslims over the following 19 months.
(4) Pilgrims have been undeterred by the collapse of a construction crane in Mecca earlier this month, which killed more than 100 people and injured at least 200.
(5) Video of Mecca pilgrim on 'hoverboard' divides opinion Read more The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, whose country is home to tens of millions of Muslims, said on Twitter: “My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives in the crane crash in Mecca.
(6) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
(7) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(8) Pilgrims who became group A carriers introduced this clonal group into sub-Saharan Africa on their return from the haj.
(9) Cash pilgrims and bricks of money: HSBC Swiss bank operated like cash machine for rich clients Read more Epstein, who reportedly keeps much of his wealth in the US Virgin Islands, where he owns a private island, did not respond to multiple requests for comment about his HSBC Geneva accounts.
(10) He's thanking them and telling then that he is going to become "a pilgrim about to start his last journey on Earth" (Thanks to the BBC's translator).
(11) In Pilgrim's Progress, Christian's path passes a cave in which two giants once dwelled.
(12) And though films like Scott Pilgrim can feel positively regressive in their sexual politics, BTTF is not misogynistic.
(13) 1987 31 July: Saudi security forces suppress an unauthorised protest held by Iranian pilgrims.
(14) Friends and pilgrims visited and took home with them something of the hillside.
(15) Baboun, a former literature scholar, has spent her term redrawing municipal boundaries, dealing with the damage caused to Bethlehem’s business district by the wall dividing the West Bank from Israel, and focusing on providing sufficient accommodation for tourists and pilgrims.
(16) The only souls around are a small group of Buddhist pilgrims, lighting incense at the rear of the spectacular Khmer temple.
(17) It was not the first tragedy to strike Mecca pilgrims, although the hajj has remained practically incident-free in recent years.
(18) Their image of the church is of a pilgrim people on the move.
(19) The UK cash pilgrims also included property traders, a diet clinic owner and a toy manufacturer.
(20) But there was little mourning among pilgrims, who snapped pictures of the collapsed metal and continued with their prayers and rituals.