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Hospice and Palliative care history in Croatia

A hospice is a modern health-care institution that offers a series of system to help people and their care takers/families, and after death occurs, to help in situations of grieving. Hospices began to develop in 2500 B.C.in India and Egypt and as such their development systematically advanced to this day where the system of contemporary medicine and technology did not, after all, forget the human being (patient, seriously ill person) and consider him just a series of organs, but with emotions, stand- points, wishes and a spiritual profile. The development and need for hospice is inevitable to every country, and thus Croatia. Considering the Croatian hospice and palliative medicine/palliative care development, the leading role is dedicated to the Croatian Association of Hospice Friends lead by the distinguished Prof.D.Sc.Anica Jušić, M.D. a psysician with most credit for the development and promotion of palliative medicine, palliative care and stimulating the human conscience as a zoon politicon. Rijeka, as one of the largest cities in Croatia, also follows the ideas of palliative care and hospices, wich is mainly witnessed through the education of physicians, medical nurses, social workers and members of the clergy.

hospice; palliative care; history of palliative care in Croatia

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