These days when we say ‘hospice’ we mean hospice care as an end-of-life care. Hospice services provide palliative care to chronically ill, terminally ill or seriously ill old people.
The purpose of this compassionate palliative care is mainly to ease their pain, to make the patients as comfortable as possible under the circumstances, to attend to their physical, emotional and spiritual needs.
Historians believe that the origin of the hospice care is in the 11th century; but this is ancient history.
In the history of the hospice movement we can mention, among many others, some compassionate women who helped directly in the developing of those services with the intention to honor and respect the dying person.
Those compassionate women helped pushing the development of hospice care around the world. In Israel we can find hospice services like the Hospice of the Upper Galilee, was named after another compassionate woman – Nancy Caroline.
Professor Nancy Caroline founded the hospice of the Upper Galilee it in 1995, after being the chief medical officer of Magen David Adom, and managing the Flying Doctors in East Africa, to provide palliative care to the Golan and the Upper Galilee population.
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