Palliative care is the active total care provided to patients when a disease is not responsive to known curative or stabilizing treatments. Palliative Care affirms life and regards dying as a normal process. It neither hastens nor postpones death, but provides support and comfort to both patients with life limiting diseases and their family. It is committed to providing relief from pain and other distressing symptoms.
By integrating psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care, it offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death. It is focused on maintaining the personal dignity and self respect of the patient based on the person’s own goals. The family is considered an integral part of the palliative process. Palliative care requires an interdisciplinary team approach, which recognizes that all healthcare professionals have roles and responsibilities in providing the highest level of quality of care to the person with a life limiting disease.
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