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Palliative care. Palliative care (derived from the Latin root palliare, or 'to cloak') is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. [ 1] Within the published literature, many definitions of palliative care exist.
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 ...
End-of-life care. End-of-life care ( EOLC) is health care provided in the time leading up to a person's death. End-of-life care can be provided in the hours, days, or months before a person dies and encompasses care and support for a person's mental and emotional needs, physical comfort, spiritual needs, and practical tasks. [ 1][ 2] EoLC is ...
His experience is challenging common misconceptions about end-of-life care. Rebecca Corey. August 9, 2024 at 10:48 AM. ... Myth 5: Hospice is only for cancer patients.
Hospice. Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life by reducing pain and suffering. Hospice care provides an alternative to therapies focused on ...
Infectious disease experts weigh in. COVID-19 is seriously surging in summer 2024, and what's making the virus proliferate so much is that the symptoms are a lot like seasonal allergies, the flu ...
Hospice care in the United States. Exterior of an inpatient hospice unit. In the United States, hospice care is a type and philosophy of end-of-life care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms. These symptoms can be physical, emotional, spiritual, or social in nature. The concept of hospice as a place to treat ...
One Canadian couple met as sick teens both in need of kidney transplants and soon fell in love. At 16 years old, Brad Nicholson suffered from 16 percent kidney function, and his future wife, Regan ...