*The Challenges Facing Palliative Care Advocacy: What Is in a Name? DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.97367*

*Palliative*

 *care terminology:*

 *vocables evolution through time and languages*

concern" is from

**310**

the primary sense is pains or

trouble bestowed upon something.

[Century Dictionary] Old High German *chara* "wail,

lament;" Gothic *kara*

trouble, care".

1.Old English *carian, cearian*

2. "lament,"

3. Old Saxon *karon*

4. Old High German *charon*

5.Gothic *karon* "to be anxious" said to be from PIE root \*gar- "cry

out, call, scream" (source also of

Irish *gairm* "shout, cry, call;").

*Suggestions for Addressing Clinical and Non-Clinical Issues in Palliative Care*

6. Latin Co (combined,

get moving, agitate, think things

through)

Cogitare – to think with

movement.

 (To be moved to

… )

 global) Agitare (to

*Cogitatus*, *cura*.

"Proto-Germanic

 \**karo*-

"sorrow,

To take care of "take in hand, do";

take care "be careful" also is from

Negative sense

1.Old English "To be anxious or solicitous; grieve; feel concern or interest,

2. 3. Old Saxon *karon* "to lament, to care, to sorrow,

complain,"

4. Old High German "complain,

lament,"

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

out, call, scream" (source also of

Irish *gairm* "shout, cry, call;").

6. Latin think, consider.

Positive sense

senses, such as "have an

inclination";

"have fondness for" seem to have

developed later as mirrors to the

earlier negative ones.

a. feel concern or interest; attach

importance

 to something.

concerned,worry

trouble oneself, b. look after and provide for the

needs of. (look after, take care of,

tend, attend to,mind, minister to

a."giving heed," "attention,

Both *verb* and *noun* share origen

Very little in Spanish Palliative

Attention "Mental heeding" This finding is highly relevant as id

Care

from two Latin vocables

a. Latin

*attentionem*

(nominative

attentiveness,"

b. "to direct one's mind or

ATTEND

Late 14c.

12c

14c

*Aspect of Care*

*Verb*

 (oneself) bother,mind)

 (be

"curar".

"Proto-Germanic

 "grief, care"
