Hospice care Flashcards
What do hospice care staff do?
The aim of hospice care is to improve the lives of people who have a terminal illness that cannot be cured. Staff in hospices take care of peoples PIES needs. as well as aim to control the pain and other symptoms experienced by the patient through palliative care, they also support carers and family members and close friends, both during a person’s illness and during bereavement, after the people has died and family and friends are grieving.
What is Palliative care?
Palliative care is offered to people towards the end of there lives. It is a multidisciplinary approach to specialised medical care for people with serious illnesses. It is active and holistic. it focuses on providing patients with relief from symptoms and pain, and the physical and mental stress of a serious illness. It Regards as paramount the management of pain and other symptoms, and provision of psychological, social and spiritual support.
Why do they provide different forms of care?
The goal of palliative car is to achieve the best quality of life for patients and their families, they aim to affirm life and help people to regard dying as a normal process, offer support to help patients live as actively as possible until their death, as well as help relatives cope during the patients illness and their own bereavement.
