palliative care

American  

noun

1. medical care focused on improving the quality of life of patients with serious illnesses, as by treating symptoms and providing emotional support.

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Etymology

Origin of palliative care

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Phil Laybourne, whose wife Gail received palliative care at Maidenhead's Thames Hospice in 2020, created the calendar with a mixture of landscape and animal photos he took locally.

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She says for many of these patients, palliative care and managing their symptoms, mainly pain, would be preferable: "Their quality of life would be much better and we would avoid a hospital admission."

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Marie Curie suggest nearly a quarter of people who need palliative care do not get it.

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"Those who support the bill talk about choice. I'm not sure we have choice - we don't properly fund palliative care, we don't properly fund palliative-care research," she said.

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"I'm worried that people may make a decision for assisted dying because they're not having the right palliative care or the right social care."

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