Contents:
- Medical Video: Palliative care: living with the dying
- What is palliative care?
- Palliative care is not just physical
- Palliative care helps patients and families face death
- Where can I do palliative care?
Medical Video: Palliative care: living with the dying
It's sad when one of your family has a deadly disease but medical help can't help. The hope of recovering from illness is almost non-existent, so that life becomes a threat. There are special ways you can do if you or your family are experiencing this condition, namely by doing palliative care or palliative care.
What is palliative care?
Palliative care is special medical care for people with fatal illnesses who do not have clear drugs, or have even been sentenced to have a deadly disease. The purpose of this treatment lies in how nurses relieve the patient's condition, not as a form of treatment to cure.
Palliative care cannot be done by just anyone, because it must involve a special team such as doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals who are professionals in the field of palliative specialization. They are tasked with providing support for patients suffering from deadly diseases, and the patient's family in facing unavoidable death preparations.
This treatment can be done for patients of all ages and with varying degrees of severity.
Palliative care is not just physical
Palliative care is a type of treatment that not only emphasizes the physical condition of the patient, but focuses on emotional, psychosocial, economic, and spiritual aspects to meet the need to improve the quality of life for a patient and his family. Often this treatment is associated with terminal diseases such as cancer and HIV / AIDS.
Palliative care helps patients and families face death
In Indonesia, this type of treatment may still be rarely heard in the community. Many cases are found when people with chronic diseases such as HIV / AIDS are embarrassed to socialize and not be confident in living their lives. When things like this happen, palliative care plays a big role in improving the quality of life for HIV / AIDS patients to be even better, even though palliative care may not cure the disease.
It is important for patients to have access to health professionals who specialize in mental health, so as to be able to help them more strongly undergo each of the psychological problems they must face. Fear about the future is often a big concern for patients, and sometimes they feel the need to express it.
To help their anxiety, this treatment offers:
- Counseling
- Visualization
- Cognitive therapy
- Drug therapy
- Stress relaxation management therapy is also part of palliative care that involves providing emotional support, for patients who feel they need it.
In addition to sufferers, this treatment also provides support to all family members and other caregivers. This treatment is carried out from the diagnosis stage, throughout treatment, to near death and after death. This is so that patients can get a good quality of life before facing death, which is never known for sure.
Where can I do palliative care?
Based on the 2007 Ministry of Health Decree on palliative care, the place to do palliative care is:
- Hospital: for patients who must get treatment that requires strict supervision, special measures, or special equipment.
- Puskesmas: for patients who need outpatient services.
- Hospice: for patients who do not require strict supervision, special measures, or special equipment, but cannot be treated at home because they still require the supervision of health personnel.
- Home patients: for patients who do not require strict supervision, special measures, or special equipment or maintenance skills that are not possible for the family
It should be noted that hospitals and health centers that provide palliative care in Indonesia are still limited because the number of doctors who are able to provide care services is also limited. Therefore, it is a good idea to confirm further with the relevant parties if you want to do this treatment.
