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Document 0408
DOCN M9630408
TI Hospice and palliative care.
DT 9603
AU Rousseau P; Carl T. Hayden Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Phoenix,
Arizona,; USA.
SO Dis Mon. 1995 Dec;41(12):769-842. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/96101550
AB The emergence of AIDS and the aging of the population, with the numerous
malignant and debilitating maladies associated with growing older, have
focused attention on the provision of cost-effective quality care by
hospice and palliative care programs. Hospice and palliative care is a
venerated system of care, which uses an interdisciplinary approach to
address the medical, psychosocial, and spiritual issues that arise in
the treatment of terminally ill patients. This interdisciplinary
stratagem for symptom control is necessary to ensure that dying patients
and their families are afforded dignity and quality of life through
death and the period of familial bereavement. Although death is dominant
in palliative situations, terminal care requires an affirmation of life
and a recognition that dying is not an aberration of medical care but a
natural and normal process. Palliative care, however, also requires a
personal acceptance of death and an acknowledgment that dying does not
denote a failure to provide good medical care but, rather, calls for an
acquiescence that curative treatment is no longer feasible. Accordingly,
the terminal state is an integral process and a time to reconcile
differences so that patient and family may accept death with a minimum
of physical, spiritual, and psychosocial anguish. This article discusses
the various precepts cardinal to hospice and palliative care, including
the philosophy of terminal care, the management of pain, the adverse
effects of analgesic medications, the management of nonpain symptoms,
the use of terminal sedation, and the stages of familial bereavement.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Aging Analgesics/ADMINISTRATION &
DOSAGE/THERAPEUTIC USE Bereavement Cost-Benefit Analysis Death
Family *Hospice Care/ECONOMICS/METHODS Human Neoplasms
Pain/PREVENTION & CONTROL *Palliative Care/ECONOMICS/METHODS Terminal
Care JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW REVIEW, TUTORIAL
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).