End of Life Care Glossary

A

• Advance Care Planning

B

• Bereavement

C

• Comfort Care

D

• Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)

E

• Emotional Support
• End-of-Life Decision Making
• Euthanasia

G

• Grief Counseling

H

• Health Care Proxy
• Hospice Care

L

• Life Review
• Life-Limiting Illness
• Life-Sustaining Treatment
• Living Will

M

• Medical Aid in Dying
• Medical Ethics

P

• Pain Management
• Palliative Care
• Patient Rights
• Physician-Assisted Suicide
• Power of Attorney

Q

• Quality of Life

R

• Respite Care

S

• Spiritual Support
• Symptom Management

T

• Terminal Illness
• Terminal Sedation