Palliative care is health care for people living with terminally ill. And focuses on providing patients with relief and comfort from their symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious illness, whatever the diagnosis and their situations.
This care can either refer to a particular service that is provided by physicians and nurses who have received specialized training in this type of care, or an overall approach to care for patients with serious illness, which would include palliative care when provided by a specialist or by a non-palliative care specialist.
Exploratory secondary outcomes also showed that patients in the palliative care group benefited, with less increase in their depression symptoms, lower anxiety symptoms, and less increase in symptom burden compared with those receiving standard transplant care.
Exploratory secondary outcomes also showed that patients in the palliative care group benefited, with less increase in their depression symptoms, lower anxiety symptoms, and less increase in symptom burden compared with those receiving standard transplant care
Palliative care is focused on love, hope and care to the dying patients.
Palliative care can be provided whether an illness is potentially curable, chronic, or life-threatening is appropriate for patients with and can be administered in conjunction with curative-aimed therapies at any stage of the illness.
Hospice is a type of palliative care provided when curative treatment is no longer beneficial or desired, and when life expectancy is measured in months or less. It supports patients and their families while focusing on symptom relief and comfort.
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