Palliative Care questions with correct answers

What is Palliative Care CORRECT ANSWER Palliative care is about caring for people who have an illness that is not responsive to curative treatment. The focus is not to cure but to 'palliate'- to relieve symptoms so as to keep the person with the illness comfortable. Involves grief and bereavement support for the family. Definitions-WHO CORRECT ANSWER ..an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Accessed 25/11/2015 Who is its intended clients? CORRECT ANSWER Any person with an illness not responsive to curative measures regardless of age, gender, class, culture, race or religion. Most are suffering from cancer Other conditions may include - motor neurone disease - multiple sclerosis - AIDS - Alzheimer's disease - end-stage heart, lung or kidney failure Funnell, R. et al, Tabbner's Nursing Care