V66.7

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A program that provides special care for people who are near the end of life and for their families, either at home, in freestanding facilities, or within hospitals.

Activities that provide physical comfort and emotional calm for those who are dying by involving/including family, friends, spiritual concerns, rituals, pain control, and physical care.

Hospice care is end-of-life care provided by health professionals and volunteers. They give medical, psychological and spiritual support. The goal of the care is to help people who are dying have peace, comfort and dignity. The caregivers try to control pain and other symptoms so a person can remain as alert and comfortable as possible. Hospice programs also provide services to support a patient’s family.usually, a hospice patient is expected to live 6 months or less. Hospice care can take place

Specialized health care, supportive in nature, provided to a dying person. A holistic approach is often taken, providing patients and their families with legal, financial, emotional, or spiritual counseling in addition to meeting patients’ immediate physical needs. Care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialized facilities hospices), or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities. The concept also includes bereavement care for the family. from dictionary of health services management, 2d ed)

The active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment. The goal of palliative care is achievement of the best possible quality of life for patients and their families. Control of pain, of other symptoms, and of psychological, social, and spiritual problems is paramount. Palliative care affirms life and regards dying as a normal process, neither hastens nor postpones death, provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms, integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care, offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death, and offers a support system to help the family cope during the patient’s illness and in their own bereavement. world health organization)

V66.7 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.

This is the American ICD-10-CM version of V66.7 – other international versions of ICD-10 V66.7 may differ.