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Palliative care is a resource for anyone living with a serious illness, such as heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, dementia, Parkinson's disease, and many others. In addition to improving quality of life and helping with symptoms, palliative care can help patients understand their choices for medical treatment.
Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and families facing life-threatening illness, by preventing and relieving suffering. Learn about the global need, barriers and benefits of palliative care, and how WHO supports countries to integrate it into health systems.
Palliative care is an option that can improve quality of life for people with serious illnesses and their care partners. Learn what palliative care is, how it differs from hospice care, who provides it, where to find it, and how to pay for it.
1 cze 2023 · Palliative care improves the quality of life of patients and families facing life-threatening illness. Learn about the definition, benefits, barriers, and availability of palliative care in the WHO European Region.
The World Health Organization (WHO) describes palliative care as "an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain, illnesses inc...
Palliative care is a special approach to caring for anyone with serious illness, such as cancer. Palliative care focuses on improving the quality of life by helping patients and caregivers manage the symptoms of a serious illness and side effects of treatment.
12 paź 2021 · Palliative care is a part of integrated, people-centred health services that relieves serious health-related suffering. WHO works with countries to improve equitable access to palliative care services and to measure progress made.
