{"id":136,"date":"2015-08-24T17:08:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T15:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uct.ac.za\/pallmed\/?p=136"},"modified":"2015-08-24T17:08:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T15:08:38","slug":"so-what-is-palliative-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uct.ac.za\/pallmed\/2015\/08\/so-what-is-palliative-care\/","title":{"rendered":"So What is Palliative Care ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> (1)<\/p>\n<p>WHO Definition of Palliative Care for Children<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Palliative care for children is the active total care of the child&#8217;s body, mind and spirit, and also involves giving support to the family.<u><strong>It begins when illness is diagnosed, and continues regardless of whether or not a child receives treatment directed at the disease.<\/strong><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em><u> (1)<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>1. http:\/\/www.who.int\/cancer\/palliative\/definition\/en\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>So What is Palliative Care ? 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