Geriatric Palliative Care covers a broad spectrum of issues characterizing care near the end
of life for older adults. Beginning with the social and cultural context of old age and frailty …

The goal of palliative care is to support the best possible quality of life for patients and their
families, regardless of prognosis, stage of disease, or the need for other therapies. Palliative …

Why Is It Important? Dealing with the symptoms and stress of any painful or serious illness is
difficult. Special care is available to make you more comfortable. It's called palliative care …

Rehabilitation of older adults involves an active process, delivered through a coordinated
multidisciplinary team approach, that aims to improve function and enable subjects to live …

Palliative care has been defined as 'the active total care of patients whose disease is not
responsive to curative treatments, where the control of pain, of other symptoms and of …

Palliative care has been gaining momentum in response to the realization that traditional
curative and aggressive care approaches are not always applicable to all seriously or …

Rehabilitation in palliative care is often overlooked. Settings that do consider occupational
or physical therapy for palliative care patients often consult to therapists with competing …

• Change with each stage of illness• Modify the course of disease• Prolong patient's life
while managing symptoms• Restore or maintain function• Maintain quality of life• Preserve …

Originally, in end-stage diseases, the term 'palliation'was used synonymously with end-of-
life support. Today, palliative care is extended to all patients at any stage of chronic disease …

Constance Dahlin and Patrick Coyne associated with end-of-life care or when curative
treatments were no longer beneficial, effective, or desirable. However, in its current …