The goal of palliative care is to provide patients with relief from side effects and stress
Palliative Care |
Palliative
care is a type of care that aims to improve the quality of life of patients and
their families who are dealing with life-threatening illnesses. Palliative-care
services help to prevent and relieve suffering by detecting and treating pain
as well as other physical, psychological, and spiritual disorders early on.
Palliative-care also employs a collaborative approach to help patients and
their careers. This includes addressing practical needs and providing a support
structure to help patients live as active a life as possible until they die. A
wide range of chronic conditions, including cardiovascular disease, cancer,
chronic lung disease, diabetes, kidney failure, chronic liver disease, and
others, require palliative care.
The rise in the geriatric population, the increased
demand for palliative care services in hospitals and clinics, the
increase in the number of qualified physicians for palliative-care, public
awareness of life-threatening diseases, adoption of a sedentary lifestyle, increased
use of palliative-care for homecare, and technological advancements in the
healthcare industry for remote monitoring are the major factors driving the growth of palliative care.
What does palliative care have to
offer?
Palliative-care
has the potential to be a high-value alternative in the treatment of advanced
cancer. Palliative-care not only saves money but also improves the quality
of care. In patients with critical illnesses, it has been demonstrated to
increase the quality of life, patient satisfaction, caregiver burden, and survival.
The rising prevalence of life-threatening
conditions like cancer, cardiovascular disease, and infectious diseases is
expected to be the primary growth driver for worldwide palliative care. Other
factors contributing to the rise in global palliative-care include an increase
in the number of palliative care centers worldwide, an expansion of homecare
applications, an increase in the number of qualified physicians for hospice and
palliative-care, an expanding aging demographic, and so on. However, the high
cost of treatment can be a major impediment to global palliative care. Less expansion of medical care facilities
for the elderly in the Asia Pacific and the Middle East region, reimbursement scenario,
and less private or public funding to hospital facilities and other medical
care centers all act as global restraints on overall palliative-care.
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