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Hospice care is an alternative to hospital and home care, designed to provide warm, personal comfort for terminally ill patients which may be residential or home-based. Hopsice care are services designed to implement the hospice philosophy ; a form of palliative care offered near the end of life. Morever, Hospice care is an integrated system of medicine, nursing, counseling, and spiritual care for the terminally ill and their family that emphasizes pain control and emotional support and typically refrains from extraordinary measures to prolong life.