Home Health Care
Health care services provided in a patient’s home to promote, maintain, or restore health or lessen the effects of illness and disability.
Goals of Care Conversation
Discussions between patients, their families, and healthcare providers to establish and align treatment plans with the patient’s values and preferences.
Family-Centered Care
An approach to healthcare that recognizes a patient functions within, and depends on, a family unit – whatever form that family takes. It also recognizes that family members also have a share in the patient’s illness burden, and have a valuable role to play in supporting and sustaining the patient.
Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)
A medical order written by a doctor instructing healthcare providers not to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if a patient’s breathing stops or if the patient’s heart stops beating.
Curative Care
Care that treats or cures the disease.
Cultural Competence
The ability of healthcare providers to recognize the unique cultural and linguistic needs of a patient, and to adapt to meet them.
Case Management
A collaborative process that assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, monitors, and evaluates the options and services required to meet a patient’s health needs.
Caregiver
Anyone who provides care for another person in need, such as a child, aging parent, or patient.
Advanced Illness
Any chronic, progressive physical or mental condition that, in the absence of life-sustaining therapy or curative treatment, can lead to death.
Advance Directive
A legal document that indicates a patient’s wishes regarding their medical treatment in circumstances in which they are no longer able to express informed consent.
