QUALITY OF LIFE, HEALTH ACTIVITIES AND REHABILITATION IN PALLIATIVE CARE

Abstract

Palliative medicine is a specialized medical activity defined in the definitions of the World Health Organization. Palliative care is not aimed at curing cancer, but at improving the quality of life of patients by eliminating or reducing the painful symptoms caused by the disease or by specific antitumor treatment. Thus, physicians are able to achieve a significant prolongation of the life of terminally ill patients. Palliative care is provided by a team of a large number of different oncologists, social workers, psychologists, psychotherapists and rehabilitators. In world medical practice, palliative care is seen as the development of a network of health facilities that provide care for the patient at the end of life. The adaptation of patients to the surrounding environment can be disrupted by the existing cancer, against which to manifest socio-psychological changes in the personality. Therefore, people caring for them must be familiar with these personality and somatic changes in order to be able to respond adequately and with understanding. People dedicated to palliative care do not accept euthanasia. The goal of specialists in this field is to create a better quality of life for patients with severe chronic pain