Preface

Today the number of individuals with chronic and life-threatening or incurable diseases is rapidly increasing. This has led to an increased interest among health professionals in the care of these patients and efforts to develop approaches to improve their quality of life. All these efforts have caused palliative care to become an important field of medicine despite being a relatively new discipline.

Palliative care is an organized and highly structured care philosophy and is very important in the management of many chronic diseases, especially cancer. It aims to improve the quality of life of patients with life-threatening health problems. In palliative care, pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods are used together with supportive approaches to prevent or relieve symptoms and provide a comfortable life for the patient.

The most effective way to control the occurrence of symptoms is to provide palliative care with an interdisciplinary approach. As a multidisciplinary health service, palliative care is a team effort. The palliative care team supports the patient and the patient's family to help maintain a quality life in the patient, effectively control symptoms, facilitate communication while respecting patient decisions and choices, and provide family support during the grieving process.

Palliative care is a humanitarian service that is unique to the cultural and social structure of each individual. This book describes what palliative care is, who can be given this service, where it is provided, its purpose and the policies and practices of palliative care according to different countries. This book is a significant contribution to the literature and it is my hope that it will improve the quality of life of patients with palliative care needs as well as that of their families.

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**Chapter 8 91**

Palliative Care in Some Chronic Diseases **107**

**Chapter 9 109**

**Chapter 10 125**

Diabetes and Palliative Care: A Framework to Help Clinicians Proactively

Palliative Care Services from Past to Present

**Section 2**

Plan for Personalized care

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*by Trisha Dunning and Peter Martin*

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## **PhD Mukadder Mollaoğlu**

Professor, Health Science Faculty, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey

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Section 1

Conceptual Aspects

of Palliative Care

and Different Region

Applications
