An essential component of palliative care is the best possible relief of physical symptoms – for example, through sophisticated pain therapy. Just as important as physical care is psychosocial and often spiritual support – for all those affected. Learn more here:
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End-of-life care is a word that many people can’t or don’t want to think of in detail. Dying and death are topics that they prefer to push far away. The opposite is true of end-of-life caregivers: they consciously confront death and accompany dying people during the last phase of their lives. Simply “being there” for … End-of-Life Care – Being There Until the End
Palliative care begins at the latest when medical options for curing a disease have been exhausted and life expectancy is limited. The most important goal of palliation is to alleviate the patient’s symptoms and give them the highest possible quality of life. This also includes, in consultation with the patient, foregoing a potentially life-prolonging therapy … Palliative Medicine – What is it?
When a child dies, the world stops for the family. Often, serious illnesses are the cause, such as leukemia, severe metabolic disorders or heart defects. When a child is diagnosed with such a serious condition, nothing is ever the same again – not for the sick children, not for the parents, and just as little … Palliative Medicine – When Children are Dying
