Kaunus Hospice of the Lithuanian Caritas Federation has received financial support from a number of non-Lithuanian sources, including: the Holland Stichting Maagdenuis Foundation, for building work and a new kitchen, and the Canadian Embassy in Lithuania, for a donation towards medical supplies and the installation of a telephone line. In the absence of a health law permitting the establishment of hospices, however, it lacks formal approval or clear guidelines on norms and standards for its operation. It does however receive funding as a nursing hospital, but this does not cover the daily costs of hospice provision (42 litas against 60 litas per day, respectively). Nursing hospitals in Lithuania take care of mainly older patients with multiple pathologies and functional problems, with a maximum stay of four months.3
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