What is Palliative Care?
安宁疗护/临终关怀/缓和医疗/缓和护理
Palliative care is a specialized care for people who are living with a serious and life-threatening illness such as stage 4 cancer,
or chronic diseases like end stage kidney failure.
缓和疗护是提供给生活在严重危及生命疾病,
或终末期慢性疾病患者的一种专业医疗护理。
Palliative care
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addresses the patients’ needs as a whole, and not just the disease alone.
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focuses on improving the quality of life of patients and their families throughout this difficult journey.
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is achieved through preventing or treating the symptoms and side-effects caused by their illness and its treatments, as well as other related psychological, social and spiritual problems.
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can be provided in the hospital, outpatient clinic, nursing home, or at home.
缓和疗护
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是从整体的观点上来应对,帮助,设法解决患者的需求,而不仅仅只是医治疾病本身而已。
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是藉着预防或医治其病症所引发出来的各种症状,医治所带来的副着用,以及其它相关的心里,社会和精神问题。
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可以在医院,门诊,疗养院或家中提供。
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可以提供给即时正在同时接受治疗的患者。
Who
needs
palliative care?
我们可以提供安宁疗护给谁呢?
People of any age who are terminally ill and approaching end of life, or who have been diagnosed with a serious illness that has little or no prospect of cure, such as:
没有年龄的局限。它可以提供予被诊断出患有严重疾病的患者,如:-
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Cancer 癌症
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Kidney Failure 肾脏衰弱,不再洗肾
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Heart Failure 心脏衰弱
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Advance lungs disease 肺衰弱
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Neurodegenerative disease 神经/肌肉退化性疾病
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Motor Neurone Disease 渐冻症
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Parkinson disease 帕金森氏病
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Dementia 失智症
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Extensive stroke 严重性中风
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Traumatic brain injury 脑重创
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HIV/AIDS 末期爱滋病