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    Palliative care focuses on caring for the whole person, not just their disease. It recognizes that people have physical, mental, social, and spiritual needs in addition to their medical needs. The goals of palliative care are to relieve pain and other symptoms and improve quality of life, rather than cure the disease. It aims to add life to a person's remaining days by improving comfort and well-being rather than just extending their length of life. Palliative care also provides support for families during difficult times.

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    Palliative care focuses on caring for the whole person, not just their disease. It recognizes that people have physical, mental, social, and spiritual needs in addition to their medical needs. The goals of palliative care are to relieve pain and other symptoms and improve quality of life, rather than cure the disease. It aims to add life to a person's remaining days by improving comfort and well-being rather than just extending their length of life. Palliative care also provides support for families during difficult times.

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    Palliative care focuses on caring for the whole person, not just their disease. It recognizes that people have physical, mental, social, and spiritual needs in addition to their medical needs. The goals of palliative care are to relieve pain and other symptoms and improve quality of life, rather than cure the disease. It aims to add life to a person's remaining days by improving comfort and well-being rather than just extending their length of life. Palliative care also provides support for families during difficult times.

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    It’s care beyond cure, a concept of humanity and a backbone of

    modern medicine. Patients with life-limiting illnesses have so


    many problems that health workers feel always overwhelmed
    and powerless to help.It’s a multidisciplinary team concept
    focus to care not on disease but for the person; behind the
    disease there is a person who needs help and feels vulnerable.
    Health workers tend to focus on physical problems – disease and treatment.
    But palliative care recognises that people are much more than just bodies –
    our minds, our spirits and our emotions are part of who we are, the families
    and communities to which we belong. So the problems facing a sick person
    and their family are not just physical; they may be psychological, social and
    spiritual issues, which are just as important as the illness itself.
    Sometimes it’s difficult for health providers to explain to families the reality
    of incurable disease but it’s necessary to help them by discussing the way
    forward of management. In palliative we are focusing on relieving pain and
    control symptoms, we are aiming to put the patient in comfortable situation,
    not necessarily to cure but to give a quality of life focusing on all the aspects
    of humanity – of the patients and support families which need a very good
    orientation during this difficult time.
    Good day! I am Maria Samantha Nicole D. Bolante from G3A. Today, I am
    going to give my own opinion or explanation regarding the quote, “Adding
    life to days not just days to life.” Health care workers tend to focus on
    physical problems – disease, illness, and of course, the treatment. But for
    palliative care, it focuses more on the person as a whole and recognizes that
    people are much more than just bodies – our minds, our spirits and our
    emotions are part of who we are, as well as the families and communities to
    which we belong.
    Sometimes it may be difficult for health care workers to explain to families
    the reality of incurable diseases, but it is necessary to help them by discussing
    the way forward of management. Patients with life-limiting illnesses have so
    many problems that health workers feel always overwhelmed and powerless
    to help.It’s a multidisciplinary team concept focus to care not on disease but
    for the person; behind the disease there is a person who needs help and feels
    vulnerable.
    In palliative care, they are focusing on relieving pain and controlling
    symptoms. The main goal is to put the patient in comfortable situation, not
    necessarily to cure but to give a quality of life. That is when the quote,
    “Adding life to days not just days to life” applies. We all wished to live a
    long life but as we grow old we realized that living is not just about the
    longevity or the quantity of years but the quality of life you had, whether you
    lived long enough to say that you are contented and happy of the life you
    lived. Living a long life filled with pain and misery will not be worth it, but
    living enough to have a handful of memories with each of your love ones will
    always be worth it.

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