Palliative Care: Origins, Principles, and Delivery

Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................1
1. Demonstrate the thorough understanding of the origins and development of palliative care.....1
2. Demonstrate the principle of palliative care.................................................................................2
3. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the delivery of palliative care........................................3
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................7
References.............................................................................................................................................9
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Introduction
Palliative care is the term first coined by Cicely Sanders in 1959, it refers to the care
provided by allied health services for the terminally ill patient and their families the main
role of palliative care is to improve the quality of life of the patient for remaining lifespan. As
the life-limiting diseases encounter the most of resources of the family in taking care of the
diseased the health and social services provide palliative care that helps the families of the
patient too (Alliance, W.P.C. and World Health Organization, 2014).
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1. Demonstrate the thorough understanding of the origins and
development of palliative care.
Over the years the palliative care services have changed their face hugely and are not only
confined to the wordy meanings but are advocated by almost all of the healthcare services
and professionals. At first the origin of palliative care was in traditional and holistic
approaches but later it was identified to be of good scientific use and the utilization of
palliative care was started in health and social care (Zimmermann et al, 2014). Cicely
Sanders is known as founder of modern hospice movement that is who introduced the need
of palliative care (Clark, 2018). There was the time when hospice care was practised widely
that is the care provided after the treatment of life-threatening diseases. The founder of
palliative care identified the need for an approach that can be utilized to provide care since
the person is diagnosed with the disease and it can also prove to be an effective treatment
and thus the palliative care originated as widely used practice now-a-days (Connor, 2017).
The understanding for palliative care is essential as the term when heard mostly denotes
that the individual is dying but palliative care is not only for people who are dyeing it can be
provided as a treatment for people who are to die but can prolong their quality of life or
remaining span. Palliative care means to cloak or mask the disease that is a process where
we do not cure it but mask its effects. The development of palliative care over time since the
hospice movement of 1970's to the introduction and use of palliative care in the 19th
century there was very first development by the setting of various homes and centres
dedicated to the care of dying. St Joseph's Hospice for the Dying, Hackney London (opened
1905) was some of the institutes introduced then for caring for dying people. Later the
qualified healthcare professionals identified the need for the introduction of methods and
modalities to relieve the pain for dying patient and this was the outbreak in the palliative
care development. There were many women working in the same direction in nineteenth-
century unaware of each other's work. Jeanne Garnier was one of the earliest founders of
hospice homes in Europe and work for providing care for the dying. She started very first
home to help and care for people who were dying with respite care and services for caring
for people who are going to die (Guirimand et al, 2014). Her work based in establishment of
many other developments in order of palliative care for terminally ill patient. Rose
Hawthorn Lathrop was another nurse who trained for care for cancer patient and later
established the services to develop the care for impoverished cancer patients for their
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