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palliative care, an approach to life-threatening illness that emphasizes patient comfort throughout the course of the illness. The most prominent type of palliative care is hospice, which seeks to keep patients comfortable during the final ...
Palliative Care Defined Palliative care is part of supportive care. It adopts numerous components of supportive care. It has been characterised by NICE as follows: Palliative care is the hardworking holistic care of patients with sophistica...
Palliative Care (comfort and support vs. curative care) and the current state it is in today.3 Developing a Palliative Care Program5 2. Explain why Palliative care will become increasingly important:9 Baby boomer9 Live prolonged age10 C...
palliative care and cardiology communities that the distress, psychosocial and spiritual concerns suffered by this assembly of patients should be addressed.4 _ 12 In spite of this, there is little improvement. (Gannon 2005:11) Progress is p...
Geriatrics is a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and aging people. Geriatric medicine allows the optimal treatment of the older patient. Geriatric medicine allows health care professionals to maximize...
The proportion of elderly people, and particularly those over 80, has increased significantly in recent decades. As populations age, people die in greater numbers after long illnesses from heart disease, cerebrovascular disease including st...
palliative care patients with nonhealing wounds. palliative care measures are appropriate for patients with nonhealing wounds at any point of continuity of care. The decision, however, to move a patient in a curative treatment plan to a pla...