Importance of Palliative Care: Support and Care for Patients with Serious Illness

This report discusses the importance of palliative care for patients with serious illness. It covers the multidisciplinary team approach, strategies for end-of-life care, and the need for integrated and coordinated support. The report also includes references to relevant books and journals.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Short answer questions...........................................................................................................1
Question no. 1.........................................................................................................................1
Question no. 2.........................................................................................................................2
Question no. 3.........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Palliative care is defined as the specialised field of medical who is assign in order to provide the
support and care to the people with the serious illness and planning for the good death. The care
and support is usually focus on the aspect which is helpful for the reduction of pain with the
aspect of pain management. The palliative care is usually focus on the providing the constant
relief form the sign and symptom which is related with the patient with incurable disease. In this
report, the major discussion is based on the palliative care and their importance which is required
by patient in order to gain support and care from the medical care (Abel, and Kellehear, 2018).
MAIN BODY
Short answer questions
Question no. 1
In the context with the Mr. Jagger who want to return home and facing the issue of serious
illness require proper attention and support which may contribute towards the good health. The
multidisciplinary team usually provide the proper support with the help to instruction and play
vital role in the development of palliative care approach for the Mr. Jagger. The multidisciplinary
team is defined as the group which is consist of healthcare professional form the various
department and they perform various of role which is related with the single aim to provide the
optimum care to patient in the all the ways which ensure the safety of the patient with the support
and care. In the current context, the various of areas which is related with the discipline of care
are turn into the multidisciplinary approach. The multidisciplinary team used to focus on the
palliative care while recognising the complexities of the patient with the proper cohesive
structure and relationship (Coop, and Marlow, 2019). The working within the palliative care as
the part of multidisciplinary team, there are various of role which is used to perform. In this, the
primary aspect which is carried with the palliative care is to focus on the patient support and care
with the proper coordination and communication with the healthcare professional while sharing
the complexities which is faced by Mr. Jagger during the service of care which is related with the
palliative care. The palliative care service is usually provided by the team of the healthcare
professional with the various range of skill which has ability to manage the patient life limiting
illness by providing proper support through the medication and management which extend the
life period of patient.
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The role of palliative care is usually providing the team which is based on healthcare
professional with the proper range of skills in order to manage the life limiting illness. In
addition to this, the palliative care team are usually work together in order to meet the physical,
psychological and social, spiritual and the culture need which help the family and carer that
provide the context in order to develop the quality of role which is provided palliative care to
patient. The member of the palliative care team is usually including doctor, nurses, allied health
professional, carer and so on who used to show their contribution in order to provide the quality
of health and palliative support to the Mr. Jagger for their health complication. The team usually
focus on the Mr. Jagger activities and provide them proper support for their day to day activities
which may foster the recovery of patient from the pain and others (Hancock and et. al., 2019).
Question no. 2
There are various of strategies which is used to taken in order to provide the context of end of
life care. In addition, there are some of the strategies which may support the patient in order to
create the support to families and carer are:
Supporting families: For the number of time spouses took the patient physical change in the
stride. The attributed toward the concept of change which is related with the disease are usually
not able to provide the patient in the personal ways. Therefore, they show their ability in order to
make the thing empathise with the context to patient. The patient redefining focus on the various
changes which is based on the physical status and aspect which is based intrapersonal aspect, that
is related with the spouses redefining centred on the context to relationship with the patient. In
addition to this, the spouses are used to hold the best aspect which show their continuation that is
primarily focus on the context of patient. In addition, in order to support the families of patient,
there are enormous of strategies which is taken in order to provide the context which show the
factor which is related with the monitoring of the patient and providing the context which is
related with pain management and other medication which is provided patient. The families
usually want that the patient must take proper medication and diagnosis and their track are shared
with the families which may show the aspect that support the families (McCaughan and et. al.,
2018).
Supporting caregiver: Finding the effective ways which may helpful to support the family’s
caregiver is crucial. In addition, the enhance in the term of proportion show the elder people in
the population that provide the aspect which is related with the number of people with the
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chronic disease and sometime, they are dealing with the issue which is related with the life
threatening or the serious illness which require proper support and care. The major responsibility
which is taken for the care which is related with person or individual which enhance the outcome
which is place on families. The care is usually often show the aspect which is related with the
suggested strategies for the reducing of burden in the family caregiver (Pask and et. al., 2018).
Therefore, it is also show some of the useful aspect which support the families which is related
with the issue of incurable disease. For some families, inpatient respite service is usually show
their importance by helping in order to minimise the burden while the other caregiver used to
experience the feeling of guild and enhance stress and anxiety because of tension and worry
about the quality of care. In addition, care giver may support the role with the simple meaning of
knowing the situation which is related with the resources and support the available which is
related with them. In addition, they proper changes in the term of use of resource which provide
the context to deal with the condition that support the patient with the caregiver quality of care
and service which help to improve the quality of life (Salifu, Almack, and Caswell, 2021).
Question no. 3
Mr and Mr. Jagger wishes are fulfilled when they are achieving the integrated care and
coordinated support which may show the aspect which is reliable for the support and care. The
integrated palliative care is defined as the bringing show the aspect which is related with the
organisational, clinical and service component which may show the surety regards with care
which is delivered to the patient Mr and Mrs. Jagger. The service is well deliver with the proper
communication and coordination which is related with the complexities which may face by the
person or individual in the all the ways. Therefore, the healthcare professional and their team
focus on the management of pain and other complication which show the impact on the health of
Mr and Mrs. Jagger. The accountability of the palliative care shows the approach which is related
with the proper care and support where the healthcare professional and other team member is
working together in order to make the collaborative decision which may impact positive on the
health of Mr and Mrs. Jagger (Walshe, 2021).
In addition, the integrated care of palliation is required by every individual for the optimum
care and recovery with the administration of proper medication and other factor which is
contributed for the medical care. in other words, the support and care with the day to day
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activities is used to taken which show the impact which is required for the patient to plan a good
death.
CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion, it is well analysed that the palliative care is defined as the approach
which is taken into the consideration for the planning of good death which is related with the
patient with incurable disease. The team are used to work together in order to provide the support
and care which is require by patient for the dealing with the issue which may arise complexities.
The proper coordination and communication are used to taken in order to provide quality of care.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Abel, J. and Kellehear, A., 2018. Palliative curriculum re-imagined: a critical evaluation of the
UK palliative medicine syllabus. Palliative Care: Research and Treatment, 11,
p.1178224218780375.
Coop, H. and Marlow, C., 2019. Do we prepare patients for their digital legacy? A survey of
palliative care professionals. Palliative Medicine, 33(1), pp.114-115.
Hancock, S., Preston, N., Jones, H. and Gadoud, A., 2019. Telehealth in palliative care is being
described but not evaluated: a systematic review. BMC palliative care, 18(1), pp.1-15.
McCaughan, D., Roman, E., Smith, A.G., Garry, A.C., Johnson, M.J., Patmore, R.D., Howard,
M.R. and Howell, D.A., 2018. Palliative care specialists’ perceptions concerning referral
of haematology patients to their services: findings from a qualitative study. BMC
Palliative Care, 17(1), pp.1-11.
Pask, S., Pinto, C., Bristowe, K., Van Vliet, L., Nicholson, C., Evans, C.J., George, R., Bailey,
K., Davies, J.M., Guo, P. and Daveson, B.A., 2018. A framework for complexity in
palliative care: a qualitative study with patients, family carers and
professionals. Palliative medicine, 32(6), pp.1078-1090.
Salifu, Y., Almack, K. and Caswell, G., 2021. ‘My wife is my doctor at home’: A qualitative
study exploring the challenges of home-based palliative care in a resource-poor
setting. Palliative medicine, 35(1), pp.97-108.
Walshe, C., 2021. Perspectives on COVID-19 and palliative care research. Palliative
Medicine, 35(1), pp.4-5.
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