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In Reply To: Talking About Palliative Care vs. Hospice
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Post Re:Talking About Palliative Care vs. Hospice
Author: lwmelhad
Date: Oct 5, 2007 9:32 pm
Palliative care can begin at the time of diagnosis even as the patient pursues curative options. While the goal of palliative care is to relieve suffering and to maximize the patient's dignity and quality of life and death; the existing hospice model only aims at improving the quality of death and dying process. See article: "A concept analysis of palliative care in the United States, Journal of Advanced Nursing 46(2), 152-161".
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