What is Palliative Care?
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Episode 28 -
We recently did an episode talking about hospice and during that episode we mentioned Palliative care and how the two are similar, yet different. On this episode we are going to discuss Palliative care and what it is and how it is different than hospice. There are many good benefits and supportive resources that Palliative care provides not only for the patient, but also for the family.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care, |
| 0:04.8 | with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:08.2 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, |
| 0:10.9 | the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:26.9 | Try and make each episode here at all home care matters something that will hopefully matter to you. |
| 0:35.8 | Now we recently did an episode talking about hospice, and during that episode, we mentioned palliative care and how the two are similar, yet different. |
| 0:38.7 | So today we're going to be discussing palliative care and what it is and how it's different than hospice. But first, we wanted to give the definition |
| 0:44.0 | of palliative care as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Palliative care is defined as |
| 0:50.1 | medical and related care provided to a patient with a serious, life-threatening, or terminal |
| 0:55.7 | illness that is not intended to provide curative treatment, but rather to manage symptoms, |
| 1:01.5 | relieve pain and discomfort, improve quality of life, and meet social and spiritual needs of the |
| 1:07.2 | patient. Now, if you didn't know that we were providing the definition for palliative care, |
| 1:12.5 | and we asked you, what did we just define? There's a very good chance that many of you would have |
| 1:17.4 | said hospice. Their definitions are very similar, and so we found a good quote that we wanted to |
| 1:23.5 | share with you from Jane Brody that was featured in the New York Times from December 3rd, |
| 1:29.3 | 2013. And in her quote, Jane had said, many still believe palliative care is appropriate, |
| 1:35.3 | only when nothing more can be done to treat a patient's disease in prolonged life. |
| 1:40.3 | But unlike hospice, palliative care can and should be delivered while patients continue |
| 1:46.2 | treatment for their diseases. This quote does a really good job of making the distinction |
| 1:51.3 | between hospice care and palliative care. Palliative care can and should be delivered while |
| 1:56.8 | patients continue treatment for their diseases. And this distinction is what really separates the care between the two. |
| 2:03.6 | However, there are some other differences that differentiate hospice from palliative care. |
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