Palliative Care
Until a US National Consensus can be reached, CAPCManual proposes that the following definition of palliative care be used to guide palliative care program development:
Brief Definition (8 second sound byte):
Palliative Care aims to relieve suffering and improve the quality of living and dying.
Elaborated Definition:
Palliative Care is appropriate for any patient and/or family living with, or at risk of developing a life-threatening illness
- due to any diagnosis
- with any prognosis
- regardless of age
- at any time they have unmet expectations and/or needs, and are prepared to accept care
It aims to address:
- physical, psychological, social, spiritual and practical expectations and needs
- loss, grief and bereavement
- preparation for, and management of, self-determined life closure, the dying process, and death
It is most effectively delivered by an interdisciplinary team.
It may complement and enhance disease-modifying therapy, or it may become the total
focus of care (see Applicability of Palliative Care).
It may also be applicable to patients and families experiencing acute illness and/or chronic illness.
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CAPCManual Attribution:
von Gunten CF,
Ferris FD,
Portenoy RK,
Glajchen M, eds.
CAPCManual: How to Establish A Palliative Care Program.
New York, NY: Center to Advance Palliative Care, 2001.
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Center for Palliative Studies, San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care, San Diego, CA
and
The Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, 2001
Permission to reproduce for non-commercial educational purposes with display of
attribution and
copyright is granted.
Last updated: February 20, 2002
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Assess
Assisted Living
Baseline
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Bereavement
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Custodial Care
Customer
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E - I
Effectiveness
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Essential Services
Essential Step
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Goal
Grief
Group Home
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Illness
Indices
Interdisciplinary Team
J - O
Life Closure
Mission
Needs
Norms
Nursing Home
Objective
Outcome
Outcome Measure
P - Q
Pain
Palliative Care
Patient
Performance Gap
Performance Indicator
Performance Measure
Performance Measurement
Plan of Care
Policy
Preferred Practice Guideline
Principle
Procedure
Process
Program
Provider
Proxy
Quality Care
Quality of Life
R - S
Rehabilitation
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Risk
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Setting of Care
Situational Analysis
Skilled Care
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Stakeholder
Standard
Strategic Planning
Strategies
Strategy
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Suffering
T - Z
Tactical / Action Planning
Top-down Planning
Total Pain
Transcendental Questions
Unit of Care
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