A place or program to help care for the terminally ill.
Example:
Uncle Harold was moved to the hospice only after my aunt had almost collapsed with exhaustion while caring for him.
In the Middle Ages, hospices run by monks and nuns gave shelter and food to travelers and the poor. Now, hospices are institutions that take care of people who are too ill to be at home but whose lives cannot be saved by hospital care -- often those with incurable cancer or AIDS, for example. More and more Americans are relying on "home hospice care" -- care by visiting nurses and volunteers for terminally ill patients who have decided to live their last months at home.