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What is a hospice?
A hospice is a specialist centre for supporting people with a life threatening illness
A hospice is a specialist centre for supporting people with a life threatening illness - that is an illness that does not respond to curative treatment. Clinical Services provided include:-
Inpatients
Family Support
Day Therapy
Medical Outpatients
Hospices care for people with complicated needs. This may only be for a short time but enables them to live their days to the full and to be discharged back home if they wish.
What does Palliative Care mean?
Palliative care involves management of patient's pain and other symptoms. It also provides valuable psychological, social and spiritual support as well as support for family/carers.
Palliative care was first developed in the UK by the voluntary hospice movement in the early 1960’s. In 1987 palliative care became a recognised approach to care across a range of settings and is known as ‘palliative medicine’.
Palliative care is for patients with an advanced and progressive illness. This involves management of pain and other symptoms. It also provides valuable psychological, social and spiritual support.
The palliative care approach also includes support for family/carers. The goal of palliative care is to achieve the best quality of life for patients and their families/carers.
Some parts of palliative care may be needed earlier in the course of illness e.g. at the same time as having other treatments. This may involve symptom/pain control etc.
What is Supportive Care?
The aim of supportive care is to help patients and their families/carers cope with cancer and its treatment – from pre-diagnosis, diagnosis, treatment, cure, continuing illness, death and into bereavement.
The aim of supportive care is to help patients and their families/carers cope with cancer and its treatment – from pre-diagnosis, diagnosis, treatment, cure, continuing illness, death and into bereavement.
Supportive care is important as it helps patients live life as well as possible with the physical and/or psychological effects of cancer and its treatments.