Proclamation 5567 --
National Hospice Month, 1986
By
the President of the
A
Proclamation
Hospice
care is a humanitarian way for terminally ill people to approach the end of
their lives in comfort with appropriate, competent, and compassionate care in
an environment of personal individuality and dignity.
In
a hospice, care is provided by an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses,
social workers, pharmacists, psychological and spiritual counselors, and other
community volunteers trained in the hospice concept of care. Physical,
emotional, and spiritual needs of patient and family are treated, with special
attention to their pain and grief.
Hospices
are rapidly becoming full partners in the Nation's health care system. Medicare
provides a hospice benefit, as do many private insurance carriers. But there
remains a great need to increase public awareness about the benefits of hospice
care.
The
Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 317, has designated the month of November
1986 as ``National Hospice Month'' and authorized and requested the President
to issue a proclamation in observance of this event.
Now,
Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the
In
Witness Whereof, I
have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and of the
Ronald
Reagan
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