Author/Editor		Krčevski-Škvarč, Nevenka
Title		Rehabilitation and pain treatment in palliative care
Type		članek
Source		Period Biol
Vol. and No.		Letnik 109, št. 3
Publication year		2007
Volume		str. 243-7
Language		eng
Abstract		Palliative care has been synonymous with terminal cancer care but nowdays palliative care presents an intergrated approach of help to all patients who suffer incurable diseases including the help to their families and encloses the period from diagnosing, treatment and dying to supportive care to family after patient's death. Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families who face the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Palliative care patients report uncontrolled pain, isolation and crumbling autonomy as the most disturbing. From this point of view, pain treatment and appropriate rehabilitation, as part of integrated program of palliative care, have very high influence on patient's quality of life. In the article, we describe the site, principles and difficulties of pain treatment and rehabilitation in palliative care patients.
Descriptors		PALLIATIVE CARE PAIN REHABILITATION ANALGESICS QUALITY OF LIFE