Cuidados paliativos

Palliative medicine is a specialty that focuses on improving the quality of life for patients with serious or advanced medical conditions, and it is appropriate at any stage of disease, including at the time of diagnosis. Neurologic conditions tend to have high symptom burdens, variable disease courses, and poor prognoses that affect not only patients but also their families and caregivers.

Heart failure (HF) affects ∼600,000 Canadians and is a chronic, life-limiting illness marked by exacerbations of distressing symptoms requiring acute medical management, typically sought in Canada's emergency departments.

Background: Optimal management of chronic medications for patients with life-limiting illness is uncertain. Medication deprescribing may improve outcomes in this population, but patient concerns regarding deprescribing are unclear.

El dolor constituye uno de los elementos que conforman nuestra identidad como seres humanos. Requiere unas coordenadas culturales que lo doten de sentido1 y permitan su explicación.

For hospitalized patients whose death is imminent, palliative care can alleviate distressing symptoms that are common during the last few days or weeks of life.

By 2030, 20 percent of the U.S. population will be over the age of 65 years.For most people, the years after the age of 65 are a time of good health, independence, and integration of a life’s work and experience. Eventually, most adults will have one or more chronic illnesses with which they will live for years before they die.