Palliative Care: Improving Quality of Life for Patients with Life-Limiting Diseases

Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to give medical care to those affected by life-limiting diseases. It aims to improve the quality of life for patients and their families by addressing physical, emotional, spiritual, caregiver, and practical needs. Palliative care reduces pain and tormenting disease signals, gives dying a normal look, and gives life a reason to exist. It is a practice that should be introduced everywhere in health facilities to improve live safe dying lives.

Palliative care
Introduction
Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to give medical care to those
affected by life-limiting diseases. Palliative care was introduced during
hospice time after realizing that many patients died even after being nursed
because their pain was not properly managed.
The main reason for palliative care is to improve the quality of life a person
and their family members. The purpose of curative care is not to cure but
reduce the pain brought about by a certain illness at a stage where no cure is
expected.
It is mostly provided at the end-life stage but it is not restricted to it. Any age
can get palliative care during illness and t can also be carried out along with
other curative measures.

Why carry out palliative care
• Palliative care improves one’s quality of life through lessening stress
from the current illness. It is even advisable to carry out palliative care
before carrying out any complicated therapy to the illness.
• Palliative care also reduces depression and increases the chances of
surviving. There several features of people who require palliative care,
first, if they are not able of taking care for themselves, two, if there is
no benefit from the treatment given in the past, three, if no prove that
cure will work out and if the patient cannot participate in any health
trial.

Key areas addressed by palliative cure
• Physical Issue
Common physical symptoms include body suffering, body material failure,
appetite, breathing problems, vomiting, nausea and sleeplessness.
• Emotional and Coping Issue
Emotions such as fear, depression, anxiety and fear can be dealt with in
palliative care.
• Spiritual Issue
Some illness may make patients get involved in spiritual aspects. Others may
find out the reason why they in such situation. Palliative cure also gives
advice od the spiritual issue.

Key areas addressed by palliative cure
• Caregiver Needs
Family members have limited time with respect to activities they have to
do to make sure that their patient in living quality life. There are always
many overwhelming responsibilities added on top of what they should
do to earn living and provide medication to their patient. Caregivers can
also get stress when they lack support so it is high time for a palliative
care expert to help them to go through their situation in a peaceful way.
• Practical Needs
Family members will depend on palliative care expert when it comes to
issues like financial cases, worries on insurance and work issues.

Conclusion
• The World Health Organization gave several reason which exactly can
make it reasonable to apply of palliative care.
• They include reducing pain and tormenting disease signals, it gives dying
a normal look and gives life a reason to exist, it has no the intension to
fasten of give death future chance, it includes in itself the patient right to
spiritual involvement, helps the patient to enjoy their life up to their last
minute of their life, it also give the family courage to cope with the
patient’s situation in the right mood, palliative care believes in team work
to approach need of the patient including counseling.
• Palliative cure is a practice which should be introduced everywhere in
health facilities to improve live safe dying lives.