Palliative Care and Hospices
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- Created on: 06-05-16 09:26
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- Hospices and Palliative Care
- Hospices
- The average stay is 12 to 14 days and all patients return home feeling better.
- Patients will receive treatment (palliative care) to help relieve pain and discomfort.
- Receive a great deal of love, care and skilled attention.
- 80% of patients have cancer.
- Hospices deal with physical, psychological and spiritual pain.
- Providing support for those who are left behind.
- Palliative Care
- Active holistic care of patients with advanced progressive illness.
- Manage pain and provision of psychological, spiritual and social support.
- AIMS
- Affirm life and regard dying as a normal process.
- Provide relief from pain and other distressing symptoms.
- Integrate the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care.
- Offer a support system to help patients live actively.
- Hospices
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