Please tell me what does "hospice care" mean?

End of life care: Hospice is offered as a comforting measure to patients with terminal diseases, like cancer. This is the best way to relive distress and suffering of advanced cancers which are no longer controllable

End of life care.: Hospice is meant for those who seemingly at the end of life, although that end can still be many months away. The emphasis of hospice care is not trying to save the life, but to give comfort to the individual as their death approaches.

Hospice is a concept: Hospice is a concept. The goal is to allow individuals the ability in their choose of environments to make decisions on how to approach end of life decisions for themselves. Hospice is not a place, a service or a intervention. It is the process of supporting an patient to control end of life decisions. The goal of hospice is to keep the patient in the least restrictive environment.

Hospice services: All hospices deliver a similar set of services. They include nursing, assistance with caregivers on a limited basis, chaplaincy, bereavement counseling, social worker and physician care (medical director in many cases). You are covered for many services and this includes medications related to your terminal diagnosis. The hospice team is there to help you transition in the last phase of life.

End of life care: provided in the late stages of a terminal illness, usually when there is a prognosis of less than 6 months to live. There are hospice services in hospitals, but hospice care is more often provided at home with the goal of a person dying with dignity in the the comfort of their own home rather than a hospital. It provides medical, emotional, and spiritual support for the patient and family.