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Palliative care (from Latin root palliare "to cloak") is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimising quality of life and mitigating or reducing suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. [1] Many definitions of palliative care exist. The World Health Organization (WHO) describes ...
Hospice comes from the Latin word hospitum which means hospitality. Initially as a form of lodging for the sick, hospice refers to holistic end of life care. The word palliate comes from the Latin word "pallium", which means "cloak"—to palliate is to cloak, or cover up, the symptoms of an illness without curing it. [1]
Canadian physician Balfour Mount, who first coined the term "palliative care", was a pioneer in medical research and in the Canadian hospice movement, which focused primarily on palliative care in a hospital setting.
Palliative care can also help patients make decisions and come to understand what they want regarding their treatment goals and quality of life. [21] Palliative care is an attempt to improve patients' quality-of-life and comfort, and also provide support for family members and carers. [22] Additionally, it lowers hospital admissions costs.
In 2001, there was an active palliative care support team in 72% of hospitals and a specialized nurse or active support team in 50% nursing homes. Government resources for palliative care doubled in 2000, and in 2007 Belgium was ranked third out of 52 countries worldwide in terms of resources for palliative care.
The amendment would allow terminally ill people with a “neurodegenerative illness, disease, or medical condition”, and who are expected to die within a year, to qualify.
In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...
Symptomatic treatment, supportive care, supportive therapy, or palliative treatment is any medical therapy of a disease that only affects its symptoms, not the underlying cause. It is usually aimed at reducing the signs and symptoms for the comfort and well-being of the patient, but it also may be useful in reducing organic consequences and ...