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What is Palliative Care?

What is Palliative Care? Correct Answer <span style="">Is an approach to improve the quality of life of patients and their family who are facing life treatment illness</span>

Explanation:

Palliative Care

  • Palliative care improves the quality of life of patients and that of their families who are facing challenges associated with a life-threatening illness, whether physical, psychological, social or spiritual. The quality of life of caregivers improves as well.

  • Addressing suffering involves taking care of issues beyond physical symptoms.

  • Palliative care uses a team approach to support patients and their caregivers. This includes addressing practical needs and providing bereavement counselling.

  • It offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death.

  • Palliative care is explicitly recognized under the human right to health. It should be provided through person-centred and integrated health services that pay special attention to the specific needs and preferences of individuals.

  • The global need for palliative care will continue to grow as a result of the ageing of populations and the rising burden of non-communicable diseases and some communicable diseases.
  • Early delivery of palliative care reduces unnecessary hospital admissions and the use of health services.
  • Palliative care involves a range of services delivered by a range of professionals that all have equally important roles to play – including physicians, nursing, support workers, paramedics, pharmacists, physiotherapists and volunteers –– in support of the patient and their family.

Additional Information

  • Each year, an estimated 40 million people are in need of palliative care; 78% of the people live in low- and middle-income countries.
  • Worldwide, only about 14% of people who need palliative care currently receive it.
  • Unnecessarily restrictive regulations for morphine and other essential controlled palliative medicines deny access to adequate palliative care.
  • Adequate national policies, programmes, resources, and training on palliative care among health professionals are urgently needed in order to improve access.

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