Palliative Care
Palliative care is an interdisciplinary medical care giving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses.Palliative care was a disease specific approach, but today the WHO takes a more broad approach, that the principles of palliative care should be applied as early as possible to any chronic and ultimately fatal illness.
Pediatric palliative care is family-centered, specialized medical care for children with serious illnesses that focuses on mitigating the physical, emotional, psycho social, and spiritual suffering associated with illness to ultimately optimize quality of life.
Service Benefits :
- Palliative care improves the quality of life of patients and that of their families who are facing challenges associated with life-threatening illness, whether physical, psychological, social or spiritual. The quality of life of caregivers improves as well.
- Early delivery of palliative care reduces unnecessary hospital admissions and the use of health services.
- Physical pain can be managed using pain medications as long as they do not put the patient at further risk for developing or increasing medical diagnoses such as heart problems or difficulty breathing.