Palliative care is a philosophy of care, a type of care that can be provided across the continuum from diagnosis through to death and bereavement support, and across a variety of diseases. The concepts within palliative care, such as improving quality of life, holistic care, enabling individuals...
Palliative Care for Children The goals are the same for kids and adults: relieve pain and other symptoms. But children with serious illnesses aren’t mini-adults -- they have their own specific needs. Some kids can’t explain their pain or are too young to talk. Doctors and nurses trained...
Fifty years ago, palliative care was largely limited to comfort care at the end of life, and wasmainly provided in very few free-standinghospices. Since then the scope of palliativecare has expanded considerably and probablycan best described as 'care beyond cure'. It is: holistic: addressing...
To be a fair measure of hospital quality, hospital mortality measures must take patient-level factors, such as goals of care, into account. To answer questions about how hospital mortality rates are computed and how the involvement of hospice or palliative care (PC) are recognized and handled....
Palliative care is often seen as a "last resort" rather than a service that empowers terminally ill people to live as well as possible for as long as possible. The full benefit of this holistic approach can only be realized if people are referred early topalliative care—ideally from the ...
Palliative care specialists like me are experts intreating physical symptomslike pain and nausea. But just as important, we listen to patients' stories and find out what is most important to them. We help make difficult treatment decisions and addressthe sadness and uncertaintythat often accompany ...
In former President Carter's case, while he remained in hospice care for longer than the average patient, his health was still likely on the decline over the last two years. Dr. Gordon finds peace of mind knowing that Mr. Carter's final two years were peaceful. ...
Public awareness of palliative care is low and clinicians often equate it with hospice. This provides both challenges and opportunities. This presentation will review the data on what people know about palliative care and hospice and how they think about these things. It will discuss basic ...
How palliative care professionals deal with predicting life expectancy at the end of life: predictors and accuracy. How palliative care professionals deal with predicting life expectancy at the end of life: predictors and accuracy.HospiceObservational studySurvival prediction... S Mandelli,E Riva,M ...
Ann no longer receives curative treatment for her advanced liver disease. While she's no longer receiving treatment for the liver disease itself, she is receiving care—palliative care—to ensure she is as comfortable as possible. Now, Ann receives medications to relieve her pain and nau...