Hospice care aims to improve the quality of life for patients facing life-threatening illnesses and their families through early pain management and treatment of physical, psychosocial and spiritual problems. It recognizes dying as natural and focuses on enhancing remaining life without hastening or postponing death. Hospice care is provided by an interdisciplinary team for physical, social, spiritual and emotional support during the last stages of illness, dying process, and bereavement period to all people without discrimination.

1. PREPARED BY :JYOTI RANABHAT
BNS 3RD YEAR
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3. Palliative Care
 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, physical, psychosocial and
spiritual.

4. Hospice
 Hospice care is support and care for persons in the
last phase of an incurable disease so that they may
live as fully and comfortably as possible.

5. Hospice care
 recognizes that the dying process is a part of the
normal process of living and focuses on enhancing
the quality of remaining life.
 affirms life and neither hastens nor postpones death.
 exists in the hope and belief that though appropriate
care, and the promotion of a caring community
sensitive to their needs, that individuals and their
families may be free to attain a degree of satisfaction
in preparation for death.

6.  recognizes that human growth and development can
be a lifelong process.
 seeks to preserve and promote the inherent potential
for growth within individuals and families during the
last phase of life.
 offers palliative care for all individuals and their
families without regard to age, gender nationality,
race, creed, sexual orientation, disability, diagnosis,
availability of a primary care giver, or ability to pay.

7. Hospice care contd….
 Physical, social, spiritual and emotional care are
provided by a clinically-directed interdisciplinary
team consisting of patients and their families,
professionals and volunteers during the:
 Last stages of an illness;
 Dying process; and
 Bereavement period.

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