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hospice

Residential facility specializing in palliative care for terminally ill patients and their relatives.

The aim of hospices is to control the pain of the patients, and enable them to die with dignity.

The number of patients that receive some hospice care in the US has grown steadily since the 1980s. It reached 900,000 in 2002.
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