Hospice care is multidisciplinary and includes home visits, professional health care available on call, teaching and emotional support of the family, and physical care of the client. Some hospice programs provide care in a center, as well as in the home or in a nursing home. Hospice also offers bereavement counseling for the family. See also emotional care of the dying patient, stages of dying.
a brittle, lustrous, white metallic element occurring in nature free or combined, used chiefly in alloys and in compounds in medicine. Symbol: Sb; atomic number: 51; atomic weight: 121.75. Origin of antimony Expand.
Antimony is also what is known as a semimetal, which refers to the way in which it conducts energy â bismuth and arsenic are both semimetals as well. Other metalloids include silicon, germanium, and boron. Ad. Antimony in its stable form is a blue-white metallic element, with an atomic mass of 121.76g/mol. It melts at 1167Â°F (630Â°C) and makes a rather effective semiconductor.