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How is Palliative care different from regular healthcare?

While individual palliative care programs vary, most aim to provide a comprehensive range of services using an interdisciplinary team approach that involves doctors, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, spiritual advisors and volunteers.7

Families also benefit from support when their loved one is dying and after his or her death. A "family" is whoever the person says his or her family is. It may include relatives, partners and friends. 8

Palliative care workers attempt to provide psychosocial care, which is ‘concerned with the psychological and emotional wellbeing of the patient and their family/carers, including issues of self-esteem, insight into and adaptation to the illness and its consequences, communication, social functioning and relationships.’9

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