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Explain palliative care for adults with cancer in a hospital vs those getting care in hospice?

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Hospice can be done : In the home by providing beds, care providers, respite for family. If the home is not adequate for needs, a place called a hospice is next. Hospitals are abused by adding futile care that prolongs agony for patients and family (intubation, icu's, codes).

Answered 8/13/2012

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Both ease symptoms!: Pallative care in a hospital is often delivered by a consulting team of clinicians, or in a specialized inpatient unit. Patients at any stage of illness can be helped by palliative care. Hospice is one form of palliative care that usually is delivered at home by a team of specialists, focused on the very last phase of life.

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