Terminal care is the care provided for a patient in the terminal, or end phase of their life. But how do you know when this end phase has been reached?
In the same way that there are many different definitions of palliative care, there are also many different definitions of terminal care. Some people define terminal care in the same way as the definition of end of life care given above, so effectively they consider it as another name for end of life care. In the UK many patients and their families will refer to someone being terminally ill when they regard them, and indeed they may have, many months or even years to live.
Alternatively, terminal care is sometimes defined as being care provided for someone who is "dying". But how do you know when someone is dying?
Some people take the view that everyone effectively starts to die from the day they are born. The reality of course is that it is never known exactly when someone is going to die from a life threatening disease. Taking this approach of equating terminal care with "dying", some medical organisations define someone as being terminally ill when it is expected that there is only a short period of time, perhaps a few days or weeks, or at most a month or two, before the person is expected to die.
Terminal care is the care provided for a patient in the terminal, or end phase of their life. But how do you know when this end phase has been reached?In the same way that there are many different definitions of palliative care, there are also many different definitions of terminal care. Some people define terminal care in the same way as the definition of end of life care given above, so effectively they consider it as another name for end of life care. In the UK many patients and their families will refer to someone being terminally ill when they regard them, and indeed they may have, many months or even years to live.Alternatively, terminal care is sometimes defined as being care provided for someone who is "dying". But how do you know when someone is dying?Some people take the view that everyone effectively starts to die from the day they are born. The reality of course is that it is never known exactly when someone is going to die from a life threatening disease. Taking this approach of equating terminal care with "dying", some medical organisations define someone as being terminally ill when it is expected that there is only a short period of time, perhaps a few days or weeks, or at most a month or two, before the person is expected to die.
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Terminal care is the care provided for a patient in the terminal, or end phase of their life. But how do you know when this end phase has been reached?
In the same way that there are many different definitions of palliative care, there are also many different definitions of terminal care. Some people define terminal care in the same way as the definition of end of life care given above, so effectively they consider it as another name for end of life care. In the UK many patients and their families will refer to someone being terminally ill when they regard them, and indeed they may have, many months or even years to live.
Alternatively, terminal care is sometimes defined as being care provided for someone who is "dying". But how do you know when someone is dying?
Some people take the view that everyone effectively starts to die from the day they are born. The reality of course is that it is never known exactly when someone is going to die from a life threatening disease. Taking this approach of equating terminal care with "dying", some medical organisations define someone as being terminally ill when it is expected that there is only a short period of time, perhaps a few days or weeks, or at most a month or two, before the person is expected to die.
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