Rehabilitation as a relevant factor in improvement of the quality of life in palliative patients
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https://doi.org/10.12775/QS.2024.17.53021Keywords
palliative care, pulmonary rehabilitation, physical rehabilitation, speech and language rehabilitation, psychosocial rehabilitationAbstract
Introduction
Palliative care is a medical field focused on enhancing the quality of life for terminally ill patients rather than curing their disease. It involves a multidisciplinary team that aims to improve patients' well-being, manage pain, alleviate other physical symptoms, and ease mental suffering. The purpose of this work is to show how much rehabilitation is important for palliative patients and improves the quality of life.
State of Knowledge
The article contains different types of rehabilitation that seem to be useful in daily challenges of palliative patients. Chosen types of rehabilitation are: physical, pulmonary, speech and language and psychosocial.
Material and methods
The method obtaining the data is based on medical reviews including WHO reports about rehabilitation and palliative care showing what is a relationship between them.
Summary
All of the studies and reviews showed a strong relationship between each type of rehabilitation and improvement of quality of life of palliative patients. Each type of rehabilitation touches different areas of struggle for palliative patients as mobility, pain, communication with surrounding, anxiety, stress and social exclusion.
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