A New Way of Caregiving
In 1990, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized palliative care as a distinct specialty dedicated to relieving suffering and improving quality of life for patients with life-limiting illnesses or serious injuries. WHO described the goals of palliative care as the prevention, assessment, and multidisciplinary treatment of physical, spiritual, and psychological problems. Palliative care was now an established entity, separate from hospice and sometimes administered along with curative treatments, but hospitals were rather slow to adopt the practice.
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