Palliative care is the provision of caring and dignified support and services for people of all ages facing a life-limiting condition. It is provided wherever the person is, whether that is in the home, hospital, community clinic or hospice.
Managing common symptoms
Planning ahead
Advance care planning
Talking about dying
Services and support
Acute crisis in palliative care
Appetite loss in palliative care
Breathlessness in palliative care
Bowel obstruction in palliative care
Constipation in palliative care
Nausea and vomiting in palliative care
Weakness and fatigue in palliative care
Malignant spinal cord compression (MSCC)
Raised intracranial pressure
Superior vena cava obstruction (SVCO)
Terminal haemorrhage
Care in the last few days of life
