【Major points】
  1. Hospice palliative care is actively deal with your or your family's physical, psychological, and mental symptoms
  2. Hospice palliative care provides physical symptom control and psychological support.
  3. Hospice palliative care provides you or your family with a better quality of life.
  4. For more information, please go to the family medicine clinic.
 
I. What is hospice palliative care?
      Hospice palliative care aims to provide active and holistic care to end-stage patients who do not respond to curative treatments. The professional medical team invite the patient and their families to participate in the care program to enhance the dignity of life and a good quality of life without regrets.50b36feb41d4d3fd54e94f8f4549160e.jpg
II. Who can receive hospice services in Taiwan?
  1. Terminal cancer patients.
  2. Terminal illness including motor neuron atrophy, senile and early age organic psychosis (dementia), heart failure, respiratory failure, renal failure without dialysis or cessation of dialysis, liver cirrhosis, etc.
III. Principles of care:
  1. To control physical discomfort symptoms such as pain, breathing difficult, nausea and vomiting, bloating and constipation.
  2. To integrate psychological and spiritual needs into medical care programs.
  3. To affirm life and regard dying as a normal process, without urging or prolonging death.
  4. To assist patients and families to face the final stages of life and adapt to the process of bereavement.

If you or your family members have various physical symptoms due to terminal illness and need to be controlled by medication or apply for hospitalization in a hospice ward, hospitable home services, etc., you can go to the "Family Medicine Department" outpatient clinic for more assistance.

References

  1. Chen, K. L. & Huang, H. L. (2021). Hospice palliative care for patients with heart failure. Taiwan J Fam Med, 31(2), 87-95. https://doi.org/10.3966/168232812021063102002
  2. Taipei Veterans General Hospital Cancer Committee Cancer Hospice Care Group (2020). Taipei Veterans General Hospital Hospice and Palliative Medicine Manual, Taipei : Taipei Veterans General Hospital.
  3. Tobin, J., Rogers, A., Winterburn, I., Tullie, S., Kalyanasundaram, A., Kuhn, I., & Barclay, S. (2021). Hospice care access inequalities: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2020-002719 
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