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 …

Chapter IOverview of palliative care Kathy Burn, CBT Head. Author Information Learning
objectives: 1.To help people achieve the best symptom control and quality of life, for as long as …

Palliative care defines itself as complementary to life-prolonging therapy. Consideration
should be given instead to viewing palliative care as the gold standard for all patients with …

Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than death itself. Physicians have long given thought
to the comfort of those who are dying and palliative care is an old art of medicine. Recently …

Forty years on from the opening of St Christopher's Hospice and 20 years after palliative
medicine was formally recognized as a medical specialty, it remains as diverse as ever. No …

Palliative care is the care of patients whose disease is incurable and whose life expectancy
is limited to weeks or months. This commentary describes the development of modern …

In the middle of last century, Brit-ish psychiatrist John Hinton documented the medical
deficiencies in end-of-life care:“We emerge deserving of little credit, we who are capable of …

Clinical advancements and increasing access to global healthcare have pushed life
expectancy by 26.2 years since 1950, making it seem that modern medicine is on the right …

" Palliative care is an approach which improves quality of life of patients and their families
facing life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of …

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 …