2023-06-02 10:55:29
The expression palliative care refers to those intended to relieve pain of a sick person, but not exclusively from someone in a terminal phase.
Phrases such as these can be found in the media: “It will have a specific palliative care unit for patients that will care for them in the final process of their lives” or “If Health pays more attention to palliative care, people could end their lives in a dignified manner.”
According to the academic dictionary, palliative It is usually applied to treatments or remedies and means ‘that has the purpose of mitigating, softening or attenuating the pain of a patient‘. Thus, the person who receives this care is someone with a disease that causes pain, but who is not necessarily at the end of his life.
Although it is common to use care palliativesor simply palliatives, to refer specifically to those destined for the terminally ill —since they often have pain—, for precision it is preferable to choose then by constructions like (end-of-life palliative care, O well hospice care o in terminal phase.
In this way, in the previous examples, it would have been more appropriate to write “It will have a specific care unit for terminally ill patients that will care for them in the final process of their lives” and “If Health pays more attention to terminal palliative care, people could end their lives in a dignified way.
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