{"id":1538,"date":"2018-04-25T11:16:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T05:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdpallcare.com\/new\/?page_id=1538"},"modified":"2018-04-25T11:19:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T05:19:25","slug":"who-is-palliative-care-for","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bdpallcare.com\/new\/who-is-palliative-care-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is palliative care for?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1538\" class=\"elementor elementor-1538 elementor-bc-flex-widget\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d8bdee3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d8bdee3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7db68b9\" data-id=\"7db68b9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0669f7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f0669f7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"font-size: 2.14286rem; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 30px; color: #000080;\">Who is Palliative Care for?<\/span><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ff0a26 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"1ff0a26\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb5a566 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fb5a566\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\">Palliative care is\u00a0<u>for people of any age<\/u>\u00a0who have been diagnosed with a serious illness that cannot be cured. Palliative care assists people with illnesses such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson\u2019s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, neurological disease, dementia, congenital anomalies and drug-resistant tuberculosis, AIDS, diabetes and end-stage kidney or lung disease to manage symptoms and improve quality of life.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\">For some people, palliative care may be beneficial from the time of diagnosis with a serious life-limiting illness. Palliative care can be given alongside treatments given by other doctors.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\">Apart from the patients, palliative care also aims to lower the suffering of the carers who provides care to the patients starting from the diagnosis of their illness. Palliative care takes into account both formal and informal carers.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Formal Carers<\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\">Providers; a paid professional; associated with a formal service system of the patients with life limiting illnesses. It may include:<\/span><\/p><ul style=\"font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500;\"><li style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\">Physicians<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\">Nurses<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\">Volunteers<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p style=\"font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Informal Carers<\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\">These individuals may be primary or secondary caregivers and live with, or separately from, the person receiving care. It involves anyone who has a signification personal association with the patient with a terminal illness. It may include:<\/span><\/p><ul style=\"font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500;\"><li style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\">Spouse<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\">Relative<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\">Friend<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\">Neighbor<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5cd35c7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5cd35c7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-43574fb\" data-id=\"43574fb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ee5835f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ee5835f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"text-decoration-line: underline; color: #808080;\">References<\/span><\/p><ol><li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">World Health Organization 2018. \u2018Cancer\u2019, viewed 25 April 2018, &lt;http:\/\/www.who.int\/cancer\/palliative\/definition\/en\/&gt;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Palliative Care Australia 2018. \u2018Understanding palliative care\u2019, viewed 25 April 2018, &lt;http:\/\/palliativecare.org.au\/understanding-palliative-care-parent-menu\/understanding-palliative-care&gt;<\/span><\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Palliative Care for? Palliative care is\u00a0for people of any age\u00a0who have been diagnosed with a serious illness that cannot be cured. Palliative care assists people with illnesses such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson\u2019s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, neurological disease, dementia, congenital anomalies and drug-resistant tuberculosis, AIDS, diabetes and end-stage kidney or lung disease to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/bdpallcare.com\/new\/who-is-palliative-care-for\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who is palliative care for?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1538","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bdpallcare.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bdpallcare.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bdpallcare.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bdpallcare.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bdpallcare.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bdpallcare.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"http:\/\/bdpallcare.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1538\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bdpallcare.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}