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Evolving Hospice Movement: From Medieval Roots to Modern Care

Explore the history and development of the Hospice Movement from its medieval origins in providing physical and spiritual care to the sick, travelers, and elderly, to the modern-day establishment of hospices offering support for the terminally ill. Learn about the involvement of Irish Nuns, key milestones, challenges faced, and the aims of hospice care. Discover how hospices offer short and long-term care options, allowing patients to choose where they spend their final days.

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Evolving Hospice Movement: From Medieval Roots to Modern Care

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  1. The Hospice Movement

  2. The Hospice Movement • Middle Ages – physical an spiritual refreshment/sick/travellers/elderly. Most had a Christian foundation. Most were run by Monks and Nuns • Modern Hospice Movement – 19th century

  3. The Hospice Movement • Irish Nuns – Sisters of Charity, est. a home for the dying in Dublin • 1900 – five Nuns from the Order arrived in England to set up a home for the terminally ill in the East End of London • 1910 – St Joseph’s Hospice up and running • 1967 – Cicely Saunders set up St. Christopher’s Hospice in London

  4. The Hospice Movement • Today – over 100 in- patient hospices in England • Each offers care and support for the terminally ill – currently approx 2000 in patients • 1974 – First Hospice opened in USA – now 2000 strong looking after 300,000 patients

  5. The Hospice Movement • In both countries there are not enough beds for the number of patients • Hospices depend on fund raising/personal donations/money left in wills

  6. Aims of the Hospice Movement • Central Aim - Offer care and support to patients/friends/relatives • Three Aims • 1. To relieve pain • 2. Help people face up to forthcoming death • 3. To care for the emotional and mental needs of friends and relatives

  7. How the Hospice Movement helps • They offer initially short term residential care – a week or two • As health declines they offer longer time • People can choose to die in the hospice or at home • If they wish to die at home Macmillan nurses are employed to help

  8. Questions and tasks • Do you think Hospices should receive government money? Give reasons for your answer • Why do you think that many non religious people support the work of hospices? Give reasons for your answer • Comment on these two quotations:- • “Anything which says to the very ill that they are a burden to their family and that they would be better off dead is unacceptable. What sort of society could let its old folk die because they are ‘in the way’?” • “By giving terminally ill children permission to be who they are and ensuring that they are in a loving, supportive environment, it is possible to help them meet death with a dignity and with a nobility which in no way denies grief”

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