Hospice
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 Feature : Hospice
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| Facility for both, permanent palliative and nursing care |
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Hospice is a facility providing both, permanent palliative and nursing care, 24 hours a day, to dying or terminally or chronically ill people as well as support to their relatives. Thus it has a different focus in comparison with a nursing home.
OpenStreetMap has currently two methods to tag such facilities:
- the direct approach with healthcare=hospice
- the structured approach with amenity=social_facility + social_facility=hospice
Related facilities
- The hub of an ambulatory nursing service, providing palliative and nursing care to patients living in their homes, can be tagged amenity=social_facility + social_facility=ambulatory_care. Typically such hub is recognizable by a fleet of vehicles for the nurses on their daily visits. If they are specialised in palliative care only, social_facility:for=terminal_ill can be added.
- A Hospice association, operating an office providing consultancy and support to relatives of terminally ill people, but no daily nursing, can be tagged as office=hospice.