Chat with AIExam 25: Chronic Care, Long-Term Care, and Palliative Care
The World Health Organization defines palliative care as an approach focused on improving quality of life for both the patient faced with a life-threatening illness and their family. Discuss palliative care from this perspective
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VerifiedPalliative care:
-Provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms
-Affirms life and regards dying as a normal process
-Intends neither to hasten nor postpone death
-Integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care
-Offers a support system to help patients' life as actively as possible until death
-Offers a support system to help the family cope during the patient's illness and in their own bereavement
-Uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including bereavement counselling if indicated
-Will enhance the quality of life, and may also positively influence the course of illness
-Is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such a chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications
Sally is a community health nurse who works to provide a seamless transition among various types of interventions and services based on the needs of patients. What type of care is Sally providing?
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Discuss when it is appropriate for a patient to consider hospice palliative care.
(82) Verified-Hospice palliative care is appropriate for any person and/or family living with or at risk of developing a life-threatening illness due to any diagnosis, with any prognosis, regardless of age, and at any time they have unmet expectation and/or needs and are prepared to accept care. Hospice palliative care may complement and enhance disease-modifying therapy or it may become the total focus of care.
Over the next 20 to 30 years, the number of Canadians living with and dying from chronic diseases will increase. Why is this the case?
(77) What term is used to describe a variety of services that are necessary for the physical and psychological needs of patients who are no longer able to function independently?
(81) Which concept is used to describe integrating palliative care principles into any setting of care?
(88) Jesse is a community health nurse working in palliative care with Mrs. Wang's family. Jesse is assessing the level of care-giver burn out. Which term below best describes Jesse's?
(80) Jason is providing excellent palliative care to his patients with the goal of implementing a comfortable dying process. Which term below best describes Jason's work?
(80) What type of long-term care services are the most intense type of service delivery on the long-term care continuum?
(74) What are the reasons why people decide to move from their own homes into a collective dwelling? Select all that apply.
(76) The goal of hospice care is quality end-of-life care in any setting. Where and when did the first hospice open?
(79) Why was the Expanded Chronic Care Model developed in Canada?
(84) What is the best term used to describe the largest component of community-based long-term care services in Canada?
(73) Which of the following models is the best-known comprehensive model to address chronic care needs of patients?
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