About HPPCT

 

Palliative Care ???

Pallium – Cloak

Chronic diseases

Chronic disease with steady decline of health and acute crises in between is very different from acute disease with a brief period of ill health

The acutely ill patient in the hospital

Usually get cured

Back to normal except perhaps for the added financial burden

Goes home and resumes routine activities

The chronically and incurably ill

What happens to the patient who needs regular attention for the rest of his/ her life?

What happens to the patient with incurable cancer after getting discharged?

Or the man who fell from the coconut tree and became paraplegic?

Or the patient with a major CVA?

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Cancer

Paraplegia

Psychiatry

Kidney (Chronic Renal Insufficiency)

CVA

AIDS

PVD

Geriatric Population

Physiotherapy

Don’t add days to their life, Add life to their days

"You matter because you are you You matter to the last moment of your life, And we will do all that we can, Not only to help you die peacefully, But to “live” until you die"

-Dame Cicely Saunders-

Delivery of Palliative Care

Most of the existing palliative care services are a combination of some of the following components

Traditional Hospice

Hospital based inpatient unit

Outpatient clinics

Hospital based

Hospice based

Free standing

Home care units

Hospital based

Hospice based

______________________________Community based

A proposed system of care for chronically and incurably ill patients!

Specialists have a definite but small role

Primary care physician in the periphery to be involved

Massive involvement from the local community