What is palliative care? Is it just tender loving care?
In life-threatening (and generally prolonged) illness like cancer, AIDS etc, quality of life is decreased by · Physical problems like pain, nausea and vomiting, breathlessness, fungating ulcers and so on. · Psychological problems like depression, anger or denial in response to the illness, emotional isolation etc · Social problems like financial burden induced by loss of employment, cost of treatment, social isolation etc · Spiritual pain (Why me? Why did God do this to me? Or What is the point of my being alive?) Palliative care is the active total care of the person with such problems. The aim of treatment is improvement of quality of life. The disease process is actively addressed. For example, if it is amenable to surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, these measures are pursued provided they can improve quality of life. Pain and other symptoms are actively treated. At the same time, the emotional, social and spiritual problems are attended to. (The new WHO definition of palliative
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