Palliative care affirms the value of holistic support for persons facing death from advanced
disease. Increasingly the approach of palliative care is seen as relevant not only to terminal …

Palliative care is an approach to the care of patients, affected by serious illness, and their
families that aims to reduce suffering through the management of medical symptoms …

Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of patients and their families affected by life-
threatening illness. This approach applies to a large and growing proportion of neurological …

Patients with chronic neurologic disorders suffer from the burden of disease progression
without the hope for a cure. Therefore, symptom management and palliative care …

The new concept of palliative care supports the idea of palliation as an early approach to
patients affected by disabling and life-limiting disease which focuses on the patient's quality …

Palliative care in neurological disorders is an unfamiliar topic for most neurologists and for
many palliative care physicians, but has actually been present from the start of palliative …

The particular needs of people with progressive long-term neurological conditions-including
Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and …

Palliative medicine is a specialty that focuses on improving the quality of life for patients with
serious or advanced medical conditions, and it is appropriate at any stage of disease …

299 life (8). The Gold Standards Framework suggests that certain criteria may help with
specific clinical indicators for neurological disease and ALS, MS, and PD; it also suggests …

Incurable progressive neurological disorders cause immense pain and suffering for their
victims and families. The neurologist's role as provider of palliative care has rapidly evolved …