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2. Palliative Care: What It Is, Examples, Benefits, More

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   Palliative care is a growing field of medicine. It aims to improve the quality of life of people with serious or life-altering illnesses. Each person’s care varies but can involve physical ...

3. What to Expect When Your Loved One Is Dying - WebMD

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   When death is within days or hours, your loved one may: Not want food or drink. Stop peeing and having bowel movements. Grimace, groan, or scowl from pain. You may notice their: Eyes tear or glaze ...

4. Palliative Care: When and How It Can Help You - WebMD

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   A special kind of medicine called palliative care can help. It also goes by comfort or supportive care. Palliative doctors team up with your regular doctors to focus on symptoms like trouble ...

5. When Is Palliative Care Appropriate? - WebMD

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   Palliative care can be performed along with the care you receive from your primary doctors. With palliative care, there is a focus on relieving pain and other troubling symptoms and meeting your ...

6. Palliative care - Wikipedia

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   Palliative care (derived from the Latin root palliare, or 'to cloak') is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. [1] Within the published literature, many definitions of palliative care exist.

7. Palliative Chemotherapy: Why and When It's Used, Pros & Cons

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   Palliative care is important in relieving symptoms and improving quality of life. Palliative chemotherapy can be part of that, particularly for the treatment of cancer. There are pros and cons to ...