Word Finder - hospices

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A lodging for pilgrims or the destitute, normally provided by a monastic order.

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The provision of palliative care for terminally ill patients, either at a specialized facility or at a residence, and support for the family, typically refraining from taking extraordinary measures to prolong life.

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A specialized facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill.

Recommended local hospices attached to report.

Of public institutions there are baths, ribats, or hospices, for poor pilgrims from India, Java, &c., a hospital and a public kitchen for the poor.

Tea at Three is a new nation-wide event to raise money for hospice care, co-ordinated by national hospice charity Help the Hospices.

However, in many cases, perinatal hospices serve families who know that their baby is going to die either sometime during the pregnancy or shortly after birth.

Most hospices also have clergy available who help families with spiritual issues.

Service in the hospices was regularly performed by the hospital-fraternities - that is to say, by lay associations working under the authorization of the Church.

Perinatal hospices focus specifically on babies who are dying or who will likely die before, during, or after birth.

Hospices also offer bereavement care in the form of individual counseling, grief support groups, and educational materials and sessions.

Requiring hospices to provide bereavement counseling for the patient's family after the death of the patient.

The hospices and hpitaux and Guadeloupe the bureaux de bienfaisance, the founda- Martinique tion of which is optional for the commune, St Pierre and Miquel are managed by committees consisting of the mayor of the municipality and six Total in Am members, two elected by the municipal council and four nominated by the prefect.

Bureaux dassistance exist in every commune, and are managed by the combined committees of the hospices and the bureaux de bienfaisance or by one of these in municipalities, where only one of those institutions exists.

None but a scion of a priestly family could become a deacon, elder or bishop. Accordingly the primacy remained in the family of Gregory until about 374, when the king Pap or Bab murdered Nerses, who had been ordained by Eusebius of Caesarea (362-370) and was over-zealous in implanting in Armenia the canons about celibacy, marriage, fasting, hospices and monastic life which Basil had established in Cappadocia.

Consequently hospices arose which were designed exclusively for the pilgrim.

There are Latin and Greek hospices here, as well as an important mission, with hospital and schools, under the United Free Church of Scotland.

The charity also helps the voluntary hospices to provide training for colleagues outside the movement working in the hospice's local area.

First, we support local hospices in their vital work on the front line of caring for people who face the end of life.

In previous years we have performed in fundraising efforts for childrens hospices.

Many already work with NHS trusts, hospices and GP practices.

Within the city walls are the Latin Patriarchal church and residence; the school of the Freres de la Doctrine Chretienne; the schools and printing house of the Franciscans; the Coptic monastery; the German church of the Redeemer, and hospice; the United Armenian church of the Spasm; the convent and school of the Seeurs de Zion; the Austrian hospice; the Turkish school and museum; the monastery and seminary of the Freres de la Mission Algerienne, with the restored church of St Anne, the church, schools and hospital of the London mission to the Jews; the Armenian seminary and Patriarchal buildings; the Rothschild hospital; and Jewish hospices and synagogues.