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Palliative care - Coggle Diagram
Palliative care
Family Centered care
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Support, education, and involvement in decisions.
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• Provide for any needed emotional support and spiritual care resources, such as grief counselors and spiritual care providers
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• Provide for visitation and presence of family and extended family. Most of family members do not want the patient to die alone
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Advanced directions
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Proxy follows patient preferences, not personal wishes.
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False beliefs
Palliative care has been thought of as desirable only when the pt nears death
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Palliative care begins at the time of diagnosis of life threatening illness
Palliation: Care aimed at relieving symptoms that negatively affect the patient's or family's quality of life
Hospice: A care model focused on comfort, not cure; views dying as a natural process.
All hospice care is palliative, but not all palliative care is hospice.