| Both of these articles demonstrate the dire need for better education among patients and families regarding better end-of-life or end-stage disease care. At any stage Comfort measures should be a primary consideration for patients with chronic, severe and multiple system illnesses. That is what Palliative care is. Hospice is not just for Cancer anymore and has been available for other serious disease processes for years. But few people even know what palliative care is and they only think of Hospice with cancer. It is NECESSARY to educate AMERICA about the truth. There are also many alternative measures that can provide comfort care and integrative health therapies that can aid the palliative and hospice providers with new measures to improve the end-of-life experience. Palliative Care Nursing: Defining the Discipline? | ||
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| Will Patients Want Hospice or Palliative Care if They Do Not Know What It Is? | ||
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