| Their comments illustrate how difficult and controversial paediatric palliative care still is. |
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| Physicians are believed to know how to ensure a painless death, and they are in a position to offer palliative care knowledgeably. |
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| Most palliative care units try to involve family members and friends who are important and close to the person dying. |
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| Optimising quality of life before a timely, dignified, and peaceful death are the primary aims of palliative care. |
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| Not all hospitals and healthcare facilities offer palliative care services. |
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| The management of pain from gastric carcinoma follows established palliative care practice. |
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| The patient was discharged to the nursing home under the care of the palliative care team. |
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| Such considerations did not seem to apply to events of overt polymedication or of palliative care. |
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| It demonstrates that the use of blood transfusion in palliative care requires further discussion. |
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| In effect he found that feeding via intravenous drip constitutes medical treatment, not palliative care. |
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| Such prescriptions may affect two thirds of inpatients in specialist palliative care units. |
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| She was referred to her local palliative care team and was delighted at their positive and unpatronising attitude. |
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| The typical model of cancer palliative care might not suit people who have a gradual, progressive decline with unpredictable exacerbations. |
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| A form detailing palliative care management should be completed by the patient's general practitioner. |
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| Focus groups were used in an exploratory study to examine the perceptions of palliative care among cardiorespiratory nurses. |
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| She willingly lectures at conferences on palliative care, oncology nursing, and pain management. |
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| Many palliative care programs offer early consultation to the oncologist or other specialists providing treatment. |
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| The disciplines of geriatrics, gerontology and palliative care, in large measure, work in isolation from each other. |
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| Some have dedicated their expertise to specific areas including sports medicine, palliative care, psychiatry and obstetrics. |
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| It remains one of only a few mandatory clerkship experiences in palliative care in a Canadian medical school. |
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| In many cases, physicians are reluctant to refer patients to palliative care for fear that the demand will outstrip resources. |
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| If a patient expects CPR, then care likely will be provided in a setting other than a palliative care unit. |
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| While lunching with colleagues, the talk turned to the desperate need in Quebec for a home for children needing palliative care. |
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| If you eventually choose to leave home, many other facilities offer palliative care. |
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| Here are some tips and tools to help you design and conduct a research study in palliative care. |
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| The palliative care consulting team was led by the director of geriatrics. |
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| Just over a decade later, those needs are widely recognized, and scientists and leaders in palliative care are working together to meet them. |
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| This report sets out a vision for palliative care in the future with realistic and attainable goals. |
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| Finally, the family physician may provide palliative care to people with terminal diseases. |
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| Palliative care is a basic service in all provinces and territories, so there's no charge for palliative care in a hospital. |
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| He has worked at the Ottawa General Hospital and subsequently in palliative care in a home setting. |
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| Patients and families were reluctant to accept palliative care, as this meant accepting that death was imminent. |
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| This was followed by a positive discussion around the real issue of access to hospice palliative care. |
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| The point to be made is that euthanasia and assisted suicide is not and never will be a part of hospice palliative care. |
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| The lack of access to quality palliative care has contributed to the resurgence in the debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide. |
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| We must avoid making palliative care the automatic fate of certain groups deemed somehow undeserving of full and complete conventional care. |
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| It's important to check with your father's palliative care team to find out the steps you need to follow. |
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| Protective and palliative care includes moisturizing and padding callused skin. |
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| Other measures focus on early detection of cancers, augmentation of treatment facilities and establishment of equitable pain control and a palliative care network. |
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| Skills in palliative care are an important component of good management in the terminal stages of the condition, and communication is particularly crucial at this point. |
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| He had been discharged from the tertiary unit for palliative care. |
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| The socially defined knowledge and experience of nurses was explored to determine the collective perception of palliative care in cardiorespiratory disease. |
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| Another factor to take account of is that many institutions have reduced palliative care beds. |
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| Bereavement programs are often part of the comprehensive care offered as part of palliative care. |
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| It is essential that we include bereavement services as part of the basket of palliative care services. |
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| Provincial home palliative care programs may place limits on the amount of professional and personal support services paid for publicly. |
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| Canadians are still being presented with the hospital as their best or only choice for palliative care in many parts of Canada. |
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| Some of us students volunteered to visit the hospital, and to spend time with people who were in palliative care, and dying from cancer. |
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| In a palliative care setting, helping the dying to die with dignity is the highest ethical imperative. |
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| A palliative care physician is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide advice and expertise. |
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| Many of these speak of palliative care interchangeably with, and sometimes as distinct from, end-of-life care. |
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| Hospitals are viewed as dehumanized environments where the status of palliative care nurses is very low. |
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| This confusion and reluctance to talk about how things are going may cause unnecessary delay in providing palliative care. |
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| This applies in particular to volunteering in palliative care, i.e. for visitation of seriously or terminally ill patients. |
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| The purpose of palliative care is to improve the quality of remaining life rather than to prolong it or affect a cure. |
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| Provincial and territorial funding for research on hospice palliative care is clearly either extremely limited or completely nonexistent. |
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| The perception is that somehow it is substandard care and that curative treatment and palliative care are mutually exclusive. |
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| The local standard of care for HIV and AIDS includes only palliative care. |
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| A permanent fixture, everything is explained in it, from the basic principles of palliative care to its origin and evolution. |
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| Consequently, their expectations regarding medicine and technology can sometimes seem excessive and be a hindrance to timely palliative care. |
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| The goal of palliative care is to provide comfort and dignity for the patient. |
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| As I have already said, we can support the ideas on palliative care that you mentioned in the debate. |
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| Untimely referral to hospice and palliative care is a form of underuse as is inattention to patient and family needs for nonmedical support. |
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| Room and board as well as support services must meet palliative care quality norms and standards. |
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| A comprehensive or complete strategy for treatment will go beyond medication to include other forms of therapy and palliative care. |
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| Note: Attending to patients in palliative care in Salzburg requires several years of training. |
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| The goal of the project is to improve the care and well-being of seniors requiring palliative care and their families. |
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| This study is important because of the increasing need for hospice palliative care in homes and communities. |
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| However, palliative care is increasingly being provided in a home setting by a spouse or other primary caregivers, such as a family member. |
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| All people with advanced progressive incurable illnesses would receive palliative care, regardless of diagnosis or postcode. |
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| It is a useful visual aid to help explain palliative care to patients and families, and for the general public. |
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| As hospice palliative care providers, we will respect their right to choose and will not abandon them. |
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| There is more work needed to be done in these areas as most of these strategies pay little attention to the issue of hospice palliative care. |
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| We wish you well as you undertake this special task to enhance Canadians access to high quality palliative care. |
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| This video can be used to heighten awareness about palliative care and address some of the common questions and concerns about it. |
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| Ready to support you is a network of organizations, grounded in the life-affirming principles of hospice palliative care. |
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| It can be as simple as an hour spent reading a book with a younger sibling or as complex as providing palliative care to an ailing elder. |
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| In summary, it is important for palliative care to reap maximum benefit from new information technologies. |
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| I would also co-locate palliative care clinicians with relevant departments such as oncology, geriatrics and general practice. |
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| Hospice palliative care provides physical, emotional, psychological and practical support to people with a terminal illness. |
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| Readers are cautioned that therapies and clinical recommendations in geriatrics and palliative care are constantly evolving. |
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| On the living-room table lies a palliative care pocket guide. |
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| A specialist palliative care team usually includes a physician, clinical nurse specialist or nurse, social worker, spiritual advisor and volunteers. |
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| It may be affiliated with a hospital or other palliative care program. |
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| Whether educating future health care professionals or consumers of health care, Canada has some of the most impassioned champions of palliative care in the world. |
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| This initiative is breaking new ground in Canada, as a means of developing collaborative models to share knowledge around hospice palliative care. |
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| The Government was working on developing stronger palliative care as an alternative to euthanasia, but was not considering revising the euthanasia law. |
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| The lack of palliative care content in professional health education curricula and lack of palliative care training for nonprofessional caregivers has negative implications for seniors who are at the end of life. |
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| Oxycodone is a narcotic frequently used as a pain reliever for the treatment of moderate to severe short-term and long-term pain as well as palliative care for the terminally ill. |
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| One of the barriers to incorporating palliative care services more effectively into the system is the lack of education and training in palliative care. |
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| One analogy that has been presented is that of a 'dimmer switch' instead of an 'onoff switch' model of palliative care, such that palliative measures are introduced simultaneously with potentially curative treatments. |
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| Should Parliament decide to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide before ensuring that every Canadian has access to palliative care, our government will not be allowing individuals a truly free choice. |
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| We believe that the option of staying at home as long as is possible, and perhaps dying at home as most Canadians wish, needs to be supported with increased resources and specialized hospice palliative care resources. |
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| Known for his compassion and empathy for all people, Dr. Mount pioneered the palliative care movement in North America and has spent more than 30 years advocating for quality care when cure is not possible. |
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| When presented with a choice, Canadians, by more than a three-to-one margin, think that the greater priority for government should be investing in palliative care rather than legalizing euthanasia. |
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| Given that most people who do not die suddenly may need palliative care at least for a short while, it is not hard to imagine the effects this phenomenon may have on palliative care. |
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| We also wish to stress the dedication of the people who accompany palliative care patients right up to their last breath, a reality we were able to glimpse during the hearings. |
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| All these professionals also have training in palliative care, in areas such as pain management, grief, spirituality, and helping patients and their families make decisions about end-of-life care. |
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| She believes timely education, emotional support and community services are fundamental to enabling family members to provide palliative care in the community setting. |
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| Therapeutic obstinacy, the refusal or withdrawal of treatment, living wills, palliative care, and sedation: this short list gives an idea of the subject's breadth. |
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| According to him, the goal of palliative care is to offer medical care by a multidisciplinary team and to surround terminal patients with human warmth. |
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| Furthermore, they think that the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide could lead to a decrease in palliative care services and research investment in the field. |
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| What options are available for palliative care or symptom control? |
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| Much more than an intervention technique that is often inefficient when it is not supported with symbolic and interrelational work, palliative care consist first and foremost of mannerism and state of mind. |
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| Hospital does not mean any establishment used mainly as a clinic, extended or palliative care facility, rehabilitation facility, addiction treatment centre, convalescent, rest or nursing home, home for the aged or health spa. |
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| People should have the freedom to choose palliative care and pain relief, but they should also be free to choose other alternatives, including euthanasia. |
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| In addition to palliative care for the terminally ill, the centre will provide specialized technical and psychological support to the afflicted families. |
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| We meet those needs through continuing care, palliative care, stroke and geriatric rehabilitation, long-term care, hospices, home care and family medicine. |
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| Related: I faced a difficult choice – become a GP or give up on a career in the NHS The GP who gives his home phone number to palliative care patients' families at weekends in case they need him. |
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| The palliative care unit has become a financial black hole. |
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| This occasion gives Canadian hospice palliative care programs and services the opportunity to showcase their accomplishments and promote discussion of palliative care issues. |
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| The same story holds true for palliative care as it does for home care. |
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| Living well until the end is the goal of palliative care. |
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| In addition: What actions are taken by professional and semiprofessional actors involved in dying processes, including nurses, doctors, priests, therapists, assistants, palliative care providers? |
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| Role conflict in palliative care can evolve when one's role as a team member is in conflict with what one thinks is in the best interest of patients. |
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| Hospice care is a form of palliative care for people who are dying, but palliative care isn't about dying. |
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| Residents are excluded when in day-care, in short-term residency, in coma, in palliative care or terminally ill, using a denture adhesive, expressing verbal or physical resistiveness before or during an oral examination. |
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| The study of death is called thanatology, and one main strand of this is palliative care, the branch of medicine intended to reduce the pain, fear, and indignity that often attend the very end of life. |
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| Even if your husband never lets go of the hope for a cure, or may never even acknowledge his illness, palliative care can offer the best possible quality of life. |
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| Suggestions included presenting at non-palliative care meetings and conferences and going to specific subspecialty meetings in order to increase the awareness of pediatric palliative care. |
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| The most recent developments in the use of Rhenium-188 relate to cancer therapy, palliative care for bone pain caused by spreading of breast and prostate cancer, the treatment of synovitis and cardiology. |
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| Dr. Stajduhar has worked in oncology, palliative care, and gerontology for over 20 years as a clinician, clinical nurse specialist, educator, and researcher. |
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| If your province or territory does not have a palliative care benefits program, you may qualify for benefits under a general program, such as a prescription drug program or health benefits program. |
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| The CHPCA has developed an e-mail list of policy champions who are periodically sent information and breaking news regarding hospice palliative care issues. |
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| Although Britain's palliative care services are among the best in the world, there is a large unmet need for services and very serious challenges ahead. |
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| It is the responsibility of each provincial Board Member to act as an effective liaison between the CHPCA and their provincial hospice palliative care association. |
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| Voicing your concerns about receiving palliative care will help you prepare for the change and may help you find some new ways of seeing hope in your situation. |
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| The congress had a significant impact on the development of palliative care in Germany and elsewhere in Europe by raising awareness and fostering dialogue about the spiritual needs of the dying. |
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| An example of this trend is the growth in community based palliative care. |
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| Complementary therapies are often used in palliative care or by practitioners attempting to manage chronic pain in patients. |
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| Integrative medicine is considered more acceptable in the interdisciplinary approach used in palliative care than in other areas of medicine. |
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| The NHS also provides end of life palliative care in the form of Palliative Care Specialist Nurses. |
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| The NHS can also commission the expertise of organisations in the voluntary sector to compliment palliative care. |
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| All palliative care services provide support for both the patient and their relatives during and after the dying process. |
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| Common treatments include palliative care, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. |
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| Fifty 35-74 yr old terminally ill cancer patients received either routine medical and psychological palliative care or standard care plus hypnosis. |
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| It will also be shared via the National Hospice Foundation and social media sources to help people understand the many benefits of hospice and palliative care. |
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| That team effort also extends to the many people who help fundraise for the Palliative Care Unit. |
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| Palliative care may avoid unhelpful but expensive care not only at the end of life, but also throughout the course of the illness. |
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| Palliative care when added to usual cancer care benefits people even when they are still receiving chemotherapy. |
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| Palliative care physicians like Meier focus on the relief of that suffering, and not just for the dying. |
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| According to the World Palliative Care Alliance, much of the problem lies in the refusal of governments to give patients access to such pain killers as morphine. |
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| Palliative care is a form of medicine that focuses on managing the symptoms of chronically ill patients or patients with a life limiting illness so that they are comfortable. |
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