Palliative Care - Cancer

Palliative Care

·        Palliative Care: care of patients with active, progressive, far advanced disease and a limited prognosis and for whom the focus of care is the quality of life

·        Regards death as a normal process

·        Integrates physical, emotional, social, cultural and spiritual aspects of care

·        Offers support to help families and care givers

·        Provide relief from pain and other distressing symptoms

·        Neither hastens nor postpones death