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Rethinking palliative care: an opportunity to explore new challenges: report of a conference of the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care, 6 November 2002
- Author:
- RETHINKING PALLLIATIVE CARE
- Publisher:
- Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Moves to replace the terms “terminal care”, and “hospice care” with “palliative care” have been part of a continuing evolution. Now there is a new movement to introduce the term “supportive care”, and to suggest that palliative care is part of supportive care. Instead, of course, supportive care has always been an integral part of what we do in palliative care. There are in fact almost 100 definitions of palliative care, yet there is no single definition that is really satisfactory. During its evolution, palliative care has moved from focussing exclusively on cancer to caring for those with motor neurone disease, HIV and AIDS and more recently, anyone with far advanced disease.