Palliative Care

Edited by Mukadder Mollaoglu

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Abstract: Palliative care is one of the most important factors in the fight against chronic diseases. It begins from the moment the patient is diagnosed, continues with curative treatment until death, and ends with care that supports the patient's family and other caregivers during the postmortem mourning process. In all these stages it is very important to improve the quality of life in patients, to relieve symptoms, and to support patients and their relatives in a dignified manner. This book includes basic information about palliative care, management of patient symptoms, support suggestions for psychological and social problems, needs of patients and their families, and how palliative care is handled in different countries. Written for healthcare professionals, students, and all interested readers, this book provides important information that can be used to improve the quality of life of patients as well as that of their families.

JEL-codes: I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78984-075-9
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Communication with Families in the Last Days of a Patient's Life and Optimal Delivery of a Death Pronouncement

Soichiro Okamoto, Yu Uneno, Masanori Mori, Takashi Yamaguchi and Nobuhisa Nakajima

Diabetes and Palliative Care: A Framework to Help Clinicians Proactively Plan for Personalized care

Trisha Dunning and Peter Martin

Palliative Care Education for Everybody

Georg Bollig

Palliative Care Ethics: Medicine's Duty to Help

Sukru Keles

Palliative Care in HIV/AIDS

Habtamu Abera Areri

Palliative Care Network in Brazil

Juliana Guimaraes Lima Munis, Juliana Dias Reis Pessalacia, Jacqueline Resende Boaventura, Ana Paula Da Silva, Luciana Ferreira Da Silva, Aires Garcia Dos Santos Junior and Adriano Menis Ferreira

Palliative Care Services from Past to Present

Mukadder Mollaoglu, Murat Can Mollaoglu and Done Gunay

Palliative Care: The Nigerian Perspective

Daniel Nnadi, Swati Singh and Emmanuel Nwobodo

The Marquette Palliative Care System

Richard Love and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed

The Quality of Life of the Patients Under Palliative Care: The Features of Appropriate Assessment Tools and the Impact of Early Integration of Palliative Care

Thomas Thaniyath

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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.77739

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