Palliative+Care

=**Definition:**= A form of care for the terminally ill that focuses on relieving patients' pain, rather than curing their diseases. HGD Chapter 19, p. 485

Related to:
Hospice Care

= Examples: =

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE

- Hospice Hospice programs far outnumber palliative care programs. Generally, once enrolled through a referral from the primary care physician, a patient’s hospice care program, which is overseen by a team of hospice professionals, is administered in the home. Hospice often relies upon the family caregiver, as well as a visiting hospice nurse. While hospice can provide round-the-clock care in a nursing home, a specially equipped hospice facility, or, on occasion, in a hospital, this is not the norm.

- Palliative Care Palliative care teams are made up of doctors, nurses, and other professional medical caregivers, often at the facility where a patient will first receive treatment. These individuals will administer or oversee most of the ongoing comfort-care patients receive. While palliative care can be administered in the home, it is most common to receive palliative care in an institution such as a hospital, extended care facility, or nursing home that is associated with a palliative care team.

Source: http://www.caregiverslibrary.org/caregivers-resources/grp-end-of-life-issues/hsgrp-hospice/hospice-vs-palliative-care-article.aspx



When a person is in hospice care, they are usually receiving palliative care because there is typically nothing the doctors can do to cure them. There are three different types of hospice care: Home-based programs, Hospice Centers, and Hospital-based programs. The point of Palliative care is to make the make the patient as comfortable as possible during the duration of their life. They are also able to be with their families to say goodbye.

Mnemonics:

 * Peace- Palliative Cave- Care **

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