Hospice Care

HOSPICE NEPAL

1. PREPARED BY : JYOTI RANABHAT
BNS 3RD YEAR
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3. Palliative Care
Palliative care is an approach that improves
the quality of life of patients and their
families facing the problem associated with
life-threatening illness, through the
prevention and relief of suffering by means
of early identification and impeccable
assessment and treatment of pain and other
problems, physical, psychosocial and
spiritual.

4. Hospice

Hospice care is support and care for persons in the
last phase of an incurable disease so that they may
live as fully and comfortably as possible.

5. Hospice care

recognizes that the dying process is a part of the
normal process of living and focuses on enhancing
the quality of remaining life.
affirms life and neither hastens nor postpones death.
exists in the hope and belief that though appropriate
care, and the promotion of a caring community
sensitive to their needs, that individuals and their
families may be free to attain a degree of satisfaction
in preparation for death.

6. recognizes that human growth and development can
be a lifelong process.
seeks to preserve and promote the inherent potential
for growth within individuals and families during the
last phase of life.
offers palliative care for all individuals and their
families without regard to age, gender nationality,
race, creed, sexual orientation, disability, diagnosis,
availability of a primary care giver, or ability to pay.

7. Hospice care contd….

Physical, social, spiritual and emotional care are
provided by a clinically-directed interdisciplinary
team consisting of patients and their families,
professionals and volunteers during the:
Last stages of an illness;
Dying process; and
Bereavement period.

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