PALLIATIVE AND HOME‐
BASED CARE
, What Is Palliative Care?
• Most people associate palliative care
with cancer patients being made comfortable in an
end‐of‐life hospice setting.
• But palliative care is actually a new medical specialty
that has recently emerged
• It's not the same as hospice. It doesn't serve only
the dying. Instead, it focuses more broadly on
improving life and providing comfort to people of all
ages with serious, chronic, and life‐threatening
illnesses.
• These diseases may include cancer, congestive heart
failure, kidney failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease, AIDS, and Alzheimer's, among others.
,PALLIATIVE CARE.
Def. “ An approach that improves the quality
of life of patients and their families facing the
problems associated with chronic life‐
threatening illness, through the prevention
and relief of suffering by means of early
identification and impeccable assessment
and treatment of pain and other problems,
physical, psychosocial and spiritual.” (WHO
2002)
, • Palliative care means taking care of the whole
person ‐‐ body, mind, spirit ‐‐ heart and soul.
• It looks at dying as something natural and
personal.
• The goal of palliative care is that you have the
best quality of life you can have during this time.
BASED CARE
, What Is Palliative Care?
• Most people associate palliative care
with cancer patients being made comfortable in an
end‐of‐life hospice setting.
• But palliative care is actually a new medical specialty
that has recently emerged
• It's not the same as hospice. It doesn't serve only
the dying. Instead, it focuses more broadly on
improving life and providing comfort to people of all
ages with serious, chronic, and life‐threatening
illnesses.
• These diseases may include cancer, congestive heart
failure, kidney failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease, AIDS, and Alzheimer's, among others.
,PALLIATIVE CARE.
Def. “ An approach that improves the quality
of life of patients and their families facing the
problems associated with chronic life‐
threatening illness, through the prevention
and relief of suffering by means of early
identification and impeccable assessment
and treatment of pain and other problems,
physical, psychosocial and spiritual.” (WHO
2002)
, • Palliative care means taking care of the whole
person ‐‐ body, mind, spirit ‐‐ heart and soul.
• It looks at dying as something natural and
personal.
• The goal of palliative care is that you have the
best quality of life you can have during this time.
