hospice

(noun)

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

Examples of hospice in the following topics:

Socioemotional Development in Late Adulthood
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1969), who worked with the founders of hospice care, described in her theory of grief the process of an individual accepting their own death.