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NEW END OF LIFE CARE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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NEW 2025-2026 END OF LIFE CAREQUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is the purpose of palliative care? - ANSWER 1. Prevent and alleviate
suffering.
2. Improve the quality of life for people with major life-limiting illnesses.
What are the goals of palliative care? - ANSWER: Think of death as a normal
procedure.
Provide alleviation for symptoms, especially discomfort.
Affirm life without hastening or postponing death.
Support holistic patient care and improve quality of life.
Encourage patients to live as vigorously as possible till death.
Provide support to the family during the patient's illness and in their own
bereavement.
What is the objective of hospice care? - ANSWER Concept of care that offers
compassion, concern, and support to those in the latter stages of a terminal
illness.
What are the primary purposes of hospice care. - ANSWER The major goals of
hospice care are to help the patient live as comfortably as possible and die
painlessly and with dignity.
What are the primary differences between hospice and palliative care? -
ANSWER The primary distinction between palliative care and hospice care is
that palliative care enables a person to receive both curative and palliative
therapy.
Palliative care is totally patient-centered.
, Hospice is for patients and their families.
What are the aims for end-of-life care? - ANSWER The goals of end-of-life
care are to (1) give comfort and supportive care during the dying process, (2)
improve the quality of the patient's remaining life, (3) contribute to a dignified
death, and (4) provide emotional support to family members.
Death rattles are induced by mouth breathing and the deposition of mucus in the
airways.
Cheyne-Stokes Respiration - ANSWER is a respiratory rhythm that alternates
between apnea and deep, rapid breathing.
Hearing is usually the last sense to vanish.
Touch - ANSWER Reduced feeling.
Reduced perception of pain and touch.
Taste and smell - ANSWER • Decreased as disease progressed.
Sight - ANSWER • Blurred vision
• Sinking and glazing of the eyes
• Blink reflex is lacking.
• The eyelids stay half-open.
ANSWER: Increased heart rate, followed by a slowing and weakening of pulse.
• An irregular rhythm.
• Lowered blood pressure
• Delayed absorption of medicines delivered intramuscularly or subcutaneously
ANSWER: Increased respiration rate.
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