Current Aspects of Long-Term Care and Palliative Medicine - Volume 1

Highly skilled long-term palliative care is an integral part of modern healthcare. A wide range of specialists - medical and non-medical, universities, hospitals, various institutions and organizations - are involved with them. They are aimed not only at meeting the basic health needs of the person, but also at the social, psychological, emotional and spiritual needs of the personality of the sufferer and his relatives.

The book is proof that there is a dialogue to improve the quality of life of the terminally ill. The essential concepts in palliative care are discussed medicine, ethical dilemmas, the main problems of long-term care and palliative medicine, problems in children with oncological diseases, oncological pain and its treatment, long-term care in patients with cardiac diseases and in patients with diabetes, the training of nurses and other topics.