**IV. Palliative Care**

The term "Cuidados Paliativos" (Spanish/Portuguese) seem not to have incorporated the richness of meaning *Palliative Care* has afforded those who request, practice and receive it in the Anglo-Saxon context.

to answer is: could this happen because it ignores certain conceptual aspects such as those of "that I care about the other", "care", "pay attention",

*The Challenges Facing Palliative Care Advocacy: What Is in a Name?*

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.97367*

"assist", "give assistance to", "medically treat." beyond "hacer curas" (wound and dressing management) and "curar" (cure in English) that has been reduced to in the Spanish language (while trying to offer its whole range of

Old English *caru*, *cearu* "sorrow, anxiety, grief," also "burdens of mind; serious

Late Old English "concern, anxiety caused by apprehension of evil or the weight

Proto-Germanic \**karō* "lament; grief, care" (source also of Old Saxon *kara* "sorrow;". The primary sense is that of inward grief, and the word is not connected, either in sense or form, with L. cura, care, of which the primary sense is pains or

Old High German *chara* "wail, lament;" Gothic *kara* "sorrow, trouble, care".

a. the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something. (safe keeping, supervision, custody,

b. serious attention or consideration applied to doing something correctly or to

c. "charge, oversight, attention or heed with a view to safety or protection" is

To take care of "take in hand, do" is from 1580s; take care "be careful" also is

"to lament, to care, to sorrow, complain," Old High German *charon* "complain,

*Gothic karon* "to be anxious"), said to be from PIE root \*gar- "cry out, call,

If so, the prehistoric sense development is from "cry" to "lamentation" to

"grief." A different sense evolution is represented in related Dutch *karig*

avoid damage or risk. (caution, carefulness, wariness, awareness,

trouble bestowed upon something. [Century Dictionary].

attentions)? 1. Noun Origen

mental attention".

of many burdens,"

Meanings.

Dates from c. 1400

charge, protection,keeping)

The sense in *care o*f in addressing (1840).

d. Meaning "object or matter of concern" is from 1580.

a. "be anxious or solicitous; grieve; feel concern or interest, b. "from Proto-Germanic \*karo- "lament," hence "grief, care".

scream" (source also of Irish *gairm* "shout, cry, call;").

heedfulness, heed)

a. Old English *carian, cearian.*

Source also of Old Saxon karon.

attested from;

from 1580s. 2. Verb Dates from

Meanings

lament,"

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