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Introduction

Hospice a free public institution that provides care for seriously ill, relieved of his physical and mental condition, and maintains its social and spiritual potential.Often the word "hospice" is associated in people with certain death, the house where people are placed on the long term to live out their lives in isolation from the world. But this is misleading. System Hospice develops, becoming more popular-oriented person and his needs.

The Basic Concept of Hospice

Hospice provides care primarily to cancer patients with severe pain in advanced stages of the disease, confirmed by medical records. The primary object of medico-social and psychological care in a hospice is the patient and his family. Patient Care provides specially trained medical and support staff, as well as relatives of patients and volunteers, past the preliminary training in hospice. Hospice provides outpatient and inpatient care to patients. Outpatient care is provided in-home hospice services on-site teams ("hospice at home"). Inpatient care, depending on the needs of the patient and his family is in day and night, day or night of stay of patients in the hospital. The totality of the medical and social and psychological care to the patient should be directed at eliminating or reducing pain and fear of death at the maximum possible preservation of consciousness and mental abilities.

Each patient in the hospice should be provided with physical and psychological comfort. Physical comfort is achieved by creating a hospital environment, as close to home. Provision of psychological comfort is based on the principle of individual approach to each patient, taking into account its condition, spiritual, religious and social needs.The main idea of ??hospice care is to ensure decent life for people in situations of serious illness. This idea finds expression in the concept of palliative care.

Palliative care

Palliative care that provides optimal comfort, function and social support to patients (and family) at the stage of the disease, when a special, in particular anti-cancer treatment, it is impossible. In this situation, the struggle with pain and other somatic symptoms, as well as the solution of psychological, social or spiritual problems the patient is paramount. Forms and methods of palliative care are used in hospices.

Central to the success of palliative care is a long-term continuous monitoring of occupational ill. Opportunities to improve quality of life of cancer patients to date are sufficiently large. This problem can be solved using ...