Oncology developed as a discipline over the last decades. Treatment is concentrated on cure or palliation of the illness with the help of chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery. Palliative care has its origin in the hospice movement that started around 1960 in the UK. Centre of care is the patient and his family. Focus of care has moved from quantity to quality of life. Symptom control, communic...

PURPOSE Depression is highly prevalent in palliative care patients. In clinical practice, there is concern about both insufficient and excessive diagnosis and treatment of depression. In the Netherlands, family physicians have a central role in delivering palliative care. We explored variation in family physicians' opinions regarding the recognition, diagnosis, and management of depression in p...

Catholic health care has cause to celebrate in terms of leadership and quality in two seemingly different areas of health care: palliative care and community benefit. At first glance, palliative care and community benefit appear to be polar opposites. Palliative care focuses on serious illness and care at the end of life while most community benefit programs are designed to keep people well, he...

HIGHLIGHTS Palliative care in terminally ill patients has only been effective recently Brazil. Fetuses or neonates unable to curecare received attention 2017. Brazilian women´s characteristics directly influencing perinatal palliative care.

Palliative care that provides specialized attention to pain and symptom management is important for patients with cancer. Palliative care aims to reduce pain and other symptoms through an interdisciplinary approach involving physicians, nurses, social workers, and other members of the healthcare team. Families are included in care planning. Patients and families benefit from the availability of...

Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification, assessment and treatment of pain, and other problems - physical, psychosocial, and spiritual. It is estimated that in India the total number of people who need pa...

The African Palliative Care Association (APCA) jointly hosted its triennial palliative care conference for Africa with the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA) on 17-20 September 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa. At the heart of the conference stood a common commitment to see patient care improved across the continent. The theme for the conference, 'The Net Effect: S...

The growing demand for palliative care means that health professionals are expected to provide palliative care as a core part of their practice. Training in the practice of palliative care is a recent addition to undergraduate and postgraduate medical and other healthcare curricula, and several initiatives are under way to promote palliative care principles and practice in healthcare training. ...

The dentist’s play an important role in palliative care by improving the quality of life of the patient. Palliative care has gained importance in the recent years. A trained dentist will be a good team mate for the oncologist, radiotherapist and other doctors of the palliative care team. Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families through the ...

The focus of palliative care is to alleviate pain and suffering for patients, potentially while they concurrently pursue life-prolonging or curative therapy. The potential breadth of palliative care is recognized by the Medicare program, but the Medicare hospice benefit is narrowly defined and limited to care that is focused on comfort and not on cure. Any organization or setting that has been ...