this presentation covers relative aspects of palliative care.

1. Palliative Care
Kh. M. Nuruzzaman,
Reg: 13203038,
University of Asia
Pacific

2. What is Palliative Care?
Medical care that focuses on alleviating the
intensity of symptoms of disease.
Palliative care focuses on reducing the
severity of symptoms.

3. What is Palliative Care?
 The World Health Organization describes
palliative care as
"an approach that improves the quality of life of
patients and their families facing the problems
associated with life-threatening illness, through
the prevention and relief of suffering by means
of early identification and treatment of pain and
other problems, physical, psychosocial and
spiritual."

4. Features of Palliative Care
 provides relief from pain and other distressing
symptoms;
 affirms life and regards dying as a normal
process;
 integrates the psychological and spiritual
aspects of patient care;
 offers a support system to help patients live as
actively as possible until death;

5. The History of Palliative Care
 Started as a hospice movement in the 19th century,
religious orders created hospices that provided care
for the sick and dying in London and Ireland.
 The first US hospital-based palliative care programs
began in the late 1980s at a few establishments
including the Cleveland Clinic and Medical College
of Wisconsin

6. The History of Palliative Care (cont.)
 Began as a volunteer-led movement in the United
states and has developed into a vital part of the
health care system.
 Now there are over 1400 palliative care program
in U.S .

7. Why it is Important
 Palliative care is an essential component of a
comprehensive package of care for people living with
HIV/AIDS, terminal stage of cancer .
 Palliative care is an important means of relieving
symptoms that result in undue suffering and frequent
visits to the hospital or clinic
 Lack of palliative care results in untreated symptoms
that hamper an individual’s ability to continue his or
her activities of daily life.