Terminal care

Symptomatic treatment reduces and eliminates the symptoms of cancer.


 * It must be complex.
 * Pain relief has a dominant importance.

As the disease progresses, symptomatic treatment passes smoothly into terminal care, in which also includes nursing care and mental health care (in addition to symptomatic therapy).


 * Ordinary inpatient departments are usually unable to provide this, which is why special asylum facilities are being set up, where a dignified dying is ensured – a hospice.
 * Hospices are specialized programs that aim to provide care to the patient at a time when neither curative nor palliative therapy is possible.
 * It allows you to live the rest of life with dignity, without unnecessary suffering.
 * Hospices are either in separate buildings or operate in the form of home comprehensive hospice care (the patient is at home, but is cared for by a healthcare professional).

External

 * End-of-life decision-making from the nurse's point of view - interactive algorithm + test