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Third Edition, National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, 2013. - 70 р. The number of individuals with a serious or life threatening illness continues to grow as the result of an aging population and advances in technology that allow increased longevity. In order to improve quality of life during serious illness or life threatening illness, an increasing number of palliative care programs have developed. Palliative care is rooted in the interdisciplinary hospice model of care, introduced to the United States over 30 years ago as a grassroots movement. Throughout the country, hospices, with their focus on holistic and team-based care, provide care to patients and their families at the end-of-life. Within their communities, hospices serve as a resource for patients and families facing serious or life threatening illness and also offer grief and bereavement support. Today, the initiation of palliative care increasingly begins at the diagnosis of a serious or life threatening illness. Contemporary definitions of palliative care reflect the expansion of care throughout the illness trajectory, with a patient and family centered focus. Palliative care is provided across all

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Author

Ferrell В., Meier D.

Publisher

National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781934654354

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Medicine