Palliative care is an interdisciplinary approach to medical care that aims to optimize quality of life and reduce suffering for people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses, including advanced cancer, rather than to cure the underlying disease. The modern hospice movement that preceded it is closely associated with Dame Cicely Saunders, who founded St Christopher's Hospice in London in 1967; physician Balfour Mount coined the specific term palliative care in 1974 to describe this approach within a hospital setting. Palliative care addresses physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs and can be provided alongside curative treatment rather than only at the end of life.
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What is the difference between palliative care and hospice care?
Palliative care can run alongside curative treatment at any stage; in the United States hospice is a separate benefit that focuses on comfort and does not pursue a cure.
Palliative care can be given at any stage of a serious illness, alongside treatment meant to cure or prolong life, and it is not limited to the end of life. Hospice is a narrower arrangement. In the United States the term refers to a benefit the federal government has provided since 1982, in which hospice care focuses on comfort and psychological support and curative therapies are not pursued. Outside the United States, hospice usually means a building or institution that specializes in palliative care, and in everyday speech there the two terms are often used as synonyms.
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Source National Organization for Rare Disorders: Achondrogenesis
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Forty million people each year are expected to need palliative care, with approximately 78% of this population living in low and middle income countries.
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Palliative care (from Latin root palliare "to cloak") is an interdisciplinary medical care-giving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating or reducing suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses.
Palliative Care - History section
In 1974, Balfour Mount coined the term "palliative care". and Paul Henteleff became the director of a new "terminal care" unit at Saint Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palliative_care, lead section
Palliative care (from Latin root palliare "to cloak") is an interdisciplinary medical care-giving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating or reducing suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses.
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Palliative care (from Latin root palliare "to cloak") is an interdisciplinary medical care-giving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating or reducing suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses.
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View the SourceNational Organization for Rare Disorders: Achondrogenesis
National Organization for Rare DisordersTreats: Achondrogenesis, TreatmentQuote, Treats: Achondrogenesis, Treatment
Treatment of achondrogenesis is symptomatic and supportive and involves palliative care
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