The phrase "palliative care" was presented in 1975 (Mount, Hanks et al. 2006). Later, The World Health Organization (WHO) characterized palliative care, fundamentally for critically sick patients. According to WHO, from 2002, for palliative care is a methodology that enhances the personal satisfaction of patients and adults confronting the issue connected with life-undermining sickness, through the aversion and help of misery by method for right on time ID and flawless appraisal and treatment of
illnesses such as Cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Congestive Heart Failure are living longer lives than they had in the past. Therefore, it is important to understand the differences in the services provided by palliative care and hospice care and the importance of the social work practitioner involvement in these
Palliative care is an area of health care that provides care for patients who are ill and caused their health to deteriorate progressively, and rapidly at times toward the end of life, the purpose of palliative care is to relief pain, yet maintaining best quality of life and supporting the patient’s family before and after the patient has come to eternal sleep and when the illness has come to attempts at cure are impossible (Clevelandclinicmeded.com, 2015). Home palliative care are for patients
consulting group study, 70-80 % of cancer patients are diagnosed late when treatment is less efficient, 60% of them do not have quality cancer treatment. There are only 300 cancer centres in India, 40% of them are not properly equipped with advanced cancer care equipment. Nearly 600 additional centres are required by 2020.
eternal life. It is a reality but, the survival of illness makes the death more painful. Thus, palliative care becomes necessary when a person has a life-limiting illness whether its child or an adult. However effective palliative care makes it endurable especially in children. Palliative care cover whole domain such as physical, psychological, spiritual and psychosocial. According to WHO children’s palliative care include body, mind and spirit and also involve generous with the family. Thus, in the below
patients can be treated in the health care field. The type of care they receive however will solely depend upon each individual situation. In terms of acute care, the focus is promoting, restoring and maintaining health. Palliative care focuses more on comfort measures to provide a quality of life to the patient and family. These two types of treatment are both important but have different goals for care. Acute care will aim towards a cure whereas palliative care is no longer trying to cure but provide
Palliative care was a challenging topic for me. Like many others I was faced with the fear of how I might react and respond to a person who is at their end of life. Death has always been an area of nursing that I was unsure of, part of it was a lack of knowledge that I had surrounding death and how to care for a patient when death is occurring or has occurred. Communicating with patients and families in regards to death such as grief, suffering, loss, and bereavement was another area I was unsure