Palliative Healthcare Task

A Palliative Healthcare Task is a healthcare task that is aimed at optimizing quality of life for people with serious illness.

• Context:
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Preventative Care.
  • Curative Care.
• See: End-of-Life Care, Specialty (Medicine), Quality of Life, Terminal Illness, Curative Treatment, Death Anxiety.

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References

2023

• (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palliative_care Retrieved:2023-7-9.
  • Palliative care (derived from the Latin root , 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. Within the published literature, many definitions of palliative care exist. The World Health Organization (WHO) describes palliative care as "an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual". In the past, palliative care was a disease specific approach, but today the WHO takes a broader patient-centered approach that suggests that the principles of palliative care should be applied as early as possible to any chronic and ultimately fatal illness. This shift was important because if a disease-oriented approach is followed, the needs and preferences of the patient are not fully met and aspects of care, such as pain, quality of life, and social support, as well as spiritual and emotional needs, fail to be addressed. Rather, a patient-centered model prioritizes relief of suffering and tailors care to increase the quality of life for terminally ill patients. Palliative care is appropriate for individuals with serious illnesses across the age spectrum and can be provided as the main goal of care or in tandem with curative treatment. It is provided by an interdisciplinary team which can include physicians, nurses, occupational and physical therapists, psychologists, social workers, chaplains, and dietitians. Palliative care can be provided in a variety of contexts, including hospitals, outpatient, skilled-nursing, and home settings. Although an important part of end-of-life care, palliative care is not limited to individuals near the end of life. Evidence supports the efficacy of a palliative care approach in improvement of a person's quality of life. Palliative care's main focus is to improve the quality of life for those with chronic illnesses. It is commonly the case that palliative care is provided at the end of life, but it can be helpful for a person of any stage of illness that is critical or any age.

2015

• (Jenkinson, 2015) ⇒ S. Jenkinson. (2015). “Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul.” North Atlantic Books. ISBN:9781583949740

2022

• (Hallenbeck, 2022) ⇒ JL Hallenbeck. (2022). “Palliative Care Perspectives]” Google Books
  • QUOTE: Not everybody wants to do advanced training and specialize in Palliative Care, which is, of ...

2012

• (Levy et al., 2012) ⇒ MH Levy, MD Adolph, A Back, S Block, et al. (2012). “Palliative Care.” In: Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
  • QUOTE: Palliative Care should be... and augmented by collaboration with an Interdisciplinary Team of Palliative Care experts. ...

2007

• (World Health Organization, 2007) ⇒ World Health Organization. (2007). “Palliative Care.” WHO
  • QUOTE: Palliative Care module provides more detailed guidance on how to care assess Palliative Care needs as well as the existing Palliative Care …

2004

• (Morrison & Meier, 2004) ⇒ RS Morrison, DE Meier. (2004). “Palliative Care.” In: New England Journal of Medicine, Mass Medical Soc.
  • QUOTE: An 85-year-old man with New York Heart Association class IV Heart Failure, Hypertension, and moderate Alzheimer's Disease, who lives at home with his 84-year-old wife, is admitted to …

2003

• (Kvale et al., 2003) ⇒ PA Kvale, M Simoff, UBS Prakash. (2003). “Palliative Care.” In: Chest, Elsevier.
  • QUOTE: The majority of patients who acquire Lung Cancer will have troublesome symptoms at some time during the course of their disease. Some of the symptoms are common to many types of …

2002

• (Sepúlveda et al., 2002) ⇒ C Sepúlveda, A Marlin, T Yoshida, A Ullrich. (2002). “Palliative Care: the World Health Organization's global perspective.” In: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Elsevier.
  • QUOTE: Many countries have not yet considered Palliative Care as a … in need of Palliative Care. In many …

1999

• (Lo et al., 1999) ⇒ B Lo, T Quill, J Tulsky, et al. (1999). “Discussing Palliative Care with Patients.” In: Annals of Internal Medicine, ACP Journals.
  • QUOTE: ...Palliative Care. Because there are few rigorous outcome studies of communication about Palliative Care… can physicians begin to discuss Palliative Care? How might physicians respond to …

1998

• (Billings, 1998) ⇒ JA Billings. (1998). “What is Palliative Care?” In: Journal of Palliative Medicine, Liebert Pub.

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