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Clinical Trials — A Single Arm, Multicenter, Phase II Trial of RAD001 as Monotherapy in the Palliative Treatment of Patients With TCC After Failure of Chemotherapy Palliative Care During Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy in Patients With Ovarian Cancer Drug: ...More…
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Is Palliative Care Right for You?watch video
Discover whether palliative care is right for you. Find a hospital or medical center in your area that has a palliative care program. Answer the following questions to determine whether palliative care might be right for you or someone close to ...More…
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How to Get Palliative Care
Talk to your doctor about whether palliative care services are right for you and how to obtain a referral to a palliative care team. Find a hospital or medical center in your area that has a palliative care program. The first step is to talk to ...More…
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Pain Medicine & Palliative Care: Palliative Care
Stop Pain — Palliative Care for the Patient with Progressive, Incurable Disease Palliative care is an interdisciplinary therapeutic model that focuses on the comprehensive management of the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of patients with ...More…
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What is Palliative Care
Palliative care (different from hospice care) is medical care provided by physicians, nurses and social workers that specializes in the relief of the pain, symptoms and stress of serious illness. Palliative care (pronounced pal-lee-uh-tiv) is the ...More…
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Cancer: Palliative Care
Family Doctor — Palliative care is a form of care that helps a person have the best possible quality of life as his or her cancer progresses. The focus of palliative care is not on dying. Instead the focus is on living each remaining day as fully as possible. To ...More…
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Find a hospice or palliative care program
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PALLIATIVE CARE AND HOSPICE
Health in Aging — The overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States occur among older adults, typically from chronic diseases that have worsened over time. Older adults often have multiple conditions and often must come to depend more and more on others, ...More…
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Pain and Palliative Care Glossary
Stop Pain — Advance directives are used to give other people, including health care providers, information about your wishes for medical care. Advance directives are important in case there is ever a time when you are not physically or mentally able to speak ...More…
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The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
NHPCO is dedicated to promoting and maintaining quality care for terminally ill persons and their families, and to making hospice an integral part of the U.S. health care system. Caring Connections, NHPCO's consumer education program provides ...More…
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Goals of Care
Stop Pain — Goals of care evolve during the course of a serious illness. Patients, families, and medical staff must recognize that these goals can, and do, change -- often rapidly. Information and open lines of communication are essential if the goals are to ...More…
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Search for ABHPM Certified Physicians
Subspecialty certificates in hospice and palliative medicine were issued by the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (ABHPM) from 1996 through 2006. A total of 2,883 physicians earned certification by meeting the eligibility ...More…