To date, an advance in medical technology and science increase the population's life-span.
Hence, palliative medicine, aiming to improve quality of life in patients' life with incurable …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has introduced palliative care as a way to improve
the quality of life of patients with incurable diseases and their families. This care begins with …

Palliative care aims at improving the quality of life of a patient who is suffering from a chronic
serious ailment like that of advanced cancer. Nobody wants to be away from his/her own …

The need for palliative care is increasing due to the rising burden of non-communicable
diseases and some communicable diseases. Chronic illnesses demand patient-centred …

Methods: A retrospective study. Ten teams comprising of doctors, nurses, pharmacists &
Social Workers were trained and engaged in this study for symptom assessment and pain …

Objectives: We, the Department of Community Medicine, have been training healthcare
providers for palliative care in the hospital and community setting. There were many …

A three-year-old palliative care unit in Calicut, in the south Indian state of Kerala, started a
home care service in June 1996. This paper reviews the first year of operation of the service; …

Background: Home health care is considered as a partial substitute for institutional long-term
care, because patients and families with known poor prognoses prefer to stay home with …

Background The well lauded community-based palliative care programme of Kerala, India
provides medical and social support, through home-based care, for patients with terminal …

Abstract Background and Aims Patient satisfaction is an important quality indicator of health
care service. The concept of home‐based palliative care has been recently introduced in …