Palliative care is not very well-known in India. There is lack of awareness and misunderstanding about Palliative Care. The misconceptions surrounding it often deter the patients and their families from actively seeking out palliative care. So, we are making an effort to dispel the commonly held myths about palliative care and create awareness about it.
Cancer diagnosis is always devastating for the patient and the family. But this is where the long and often arduous journey starts. The curative treatment runs its own course and during this time the patient battles physically, mentally, and emotionally with the illness.
WHO has defined palliative care as “ an approach that improves quality of life of patients and their families facing problems associated with life threatening illnesses, through prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychological and spiritual”.
In view of the evolving situation of COVID-19 in the state of Karnataka and recent revision of guidelines from Government of India, the following guidelines for ending home isolation/home care of COVID-19 patients are issued.
Ubiqare Health presented it’s collaborative care approach to meet this need at IAPC Annual Conference IAPCON 2020. We presented how our care model provides continuity of care from primary specialist and reduces hospital readmissions for clinical episodes.
