1.   Although her prognosis was less than six months, she initially did not qualify for a home hospice program because she did not have a primary caregiver.

2.   But fortunately, they volunteered to help care for her in a home hospice program.

3.   Hospice programs neither hasten nor postpone death.

4.   I talked to the chaplain there and started working in the hospice program.

5.   I mean, it is harder to get into a hospice program in Oregon if you have emphysema than it is to qualify for assisted suicide.

6.   John Golenski, a Berkeley bioethicist who has run hospice programs for adults and children, said he was not surprised by the findings.

7.   Most hospice programs, the traditional source of comfort for the dying and support for their families, are ill-equipped to deal with children.

8.   Patients have access to in-patient palliative care units as well as to day hospice programs and home-based hospice programs.

9.   Similarly, some hospice programs aimed at helping people die with dignity include steps asking for and granting forgiveness, Justice said.

10.   The Evanses found out that Medicare would pay for the same services, and more, through a hospice program based on his terminal prognosis.