PSYC 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Palliative Care, Futile Medical Care, Curative Care
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Provided in homes, ambulances, emergency departments, hospitals, prisons etc. Hospice is a type of palliative care. Palliative care: attempts to relieve suffering from any illness or disease. Psychological and emotional care of a person and family. Goal: relieve suffering in a familiar setting. Improved personal control and availability of support but can be hard on loved ones. Adults living in nursing homes are more likely to die in the first 6 months than those living in non for profit homes. Quality of care, comfort, sense of meaning, suffering & control. Palliative/terminal sedation: unregulated practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill patient by drugs, by means of sedative drug, manages pain. It does not hasten death according to research. Futile care: medical care continued when there is no reasonable hope of cure. Perceived control: the feeling of control and autonomy.
