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NHPCO is dedicated to promoting and maintaining quality care for terminally ill persons and their families, and to making hospice an integral part of the U.S. health care system. ... Caring Connections, NHPCO's consumer education program provides information about: Advance Care Planning, Hospice and Palliative Care,
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Palliative care is specialized care focused on the pain, symptoms and stress of serious illness. Find a hospital or medical center in your area that has a palliative care program. ... Palliative care is not the same as hospice care. The goal of palliative care is to relieve the pain, symptoms and stress of serious illness...
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www.getpalliativecare.org/
www.getpalliativecare.org/
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Palliative care (pronounced pal-lee-uh-tiv) is the medical specialty focused on relief of the pain, stress and other debilitating symptoms of serious illness. Palliative care is not dependent on prognosis and can be delivered at the same ti...
http://www.getpalliativecare.org/whatis
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Comfort care and palliative medicine for the chronic and terminally ill in hospice, home care, and hospital settings ... Palliative care, also called comfort care, is primarily directed at providing relief to a terminally-ill person through symptom management and pain management. The goal is not to cure, but to provide...
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www.growthhouse.org/palliat.html
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Hospice care, care at the end of life, always includes palliative care. But you may receive palliative care at any stage of a disease. The goal is to make you comfortable and improve your quality of life.
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www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/palliativecare.html
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/palliativecare.html
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Palliative care is the special care of a person whose disease cannot be cured. Palliative care provides comfort and support to the person and family. Palliative care does not hasten or delay death. ... The goals of palliative care are to; ease pain and other symptoms (such as depression, upset stomach)
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www.palliative.org/PC/GeneralPublic/PalliativeCare/What...
www.palliative.org/PC/GeneralPublic/PalliativeCare/WhatIsPC.html
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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,
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www.who.int/cancer/palliative/definition/en/
www.who.int/cancer/palliative/definition/en/
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Palliative care is an essential part of cancer control and can be provided relatively simply and inexpensively. ... palliative care in sub-saharan africa ... Palliative care for children represents a special, albeit closely related field to adult palliative care. Palliative care for children is the active total care of the child...
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www.who.int/cancer/palliative/en/
www.who.int/cancer/palliative/en/
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