Hospice care lets patients walk the final stretch with dignity.
Tips
memory
Build it: 临 (lín) = 'approaching', 终 (zhōng) = 'end', 关怀 (guānhuái) = 'caring concern'. Together: 'approaching-end caring concern' — a near-perfect calque of English 'end-of-life care' or 'hospice care'.
culture
The hospice movement reached China relatively recently — the country's first hospice unit opened in 1988 at Tianjin Medical College. Cultural taboos around openly discussing death have made hospice growth slower than in the West, but it's expanding rapidly with the aging population.
