ritish hospice has been established as part of the health-care system, while he American hospice developed from the grass roots and only later attracted some government support and support from the health care system. However, while the British hospice is financed by donations and the National Health Service, American hospice programs have traditionally been private charity institutions created to support terminal care for persons in their own homes. More highly developed programs in Connecticut, Arizona, California, and New Jersey have seen the importance of inpatient hospice care both as a respite for families who have been caring for a patient at home and as a last home for the individual who has no place else to go. There are currently five identifiable types of hospice in the United States: 1) the free-standing hospice providing inpatient service along with home care; 2) the home-health agency hospice; 3) hospice beds or a hospice or palliative-care unit within a h
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