Palliative Care questions with correct answers

T/F: Palliative care is same as hospice care CORRECT ANSWER False; palliative care is an ASPECT of hospice care The major difference between palliative care and hospice care is: CORRECT ANSWER Palliative care allows a person to simultaneously receive *curative and palliative treatments.* Hospice care is provided once a person decides to *forgo curative treatments.* Palliative Care includes: CORRECT ANSWER 1. Symptom management 2. Pain management 3. Comfort care 4. Emphasis on *quality of life* 5. Does *not* mean death is imminent 6. Requires coordination of care 7. Open discussion/patient choice/support/planning must consider _______ cases & what else? CORRECT ANSWER individual cases & other *co-morbid diseases* when do you implement palliative care? Early, middle, or late in the disease process? CORRECT ANSWER Speaker says: start it earlier in the disease process!