Transforming End-of-Life Care

Journal Title: Palliative Medicine & Hospice Care – Open Journal - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 2

Abstract

Currently, hospice care which focuses on caring for a terminally ill person delivers holistic, supportive, interdisciplinary, and patient-centered management. There have been numerous efforts to establish hospice care for people who are in the end-stage of their illness. Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem 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 (WHO). Hospice care which is a subset of palliative care focuses on controlling pain and other symptoms of illness so patients can remain as comfortable as possible near the end of life. The meaning of hospice care throughout this study is a supportive care to people in the final phase of a terminal illness and focus on comfort and quality of life.

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Eun Hee Oh

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  • EP ID EP548705
  • DOI 10.17140/PMHCOJ-2-114
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Eun Hee Oh (2016). Transforming End-of-Life Care. Palliative Medicine & Hospice Care – Open Journal, 2(2), 21-25. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-548705