Palliative Care Support for Cancer Patients: Short Commentary Article

Abstract

Objectives: Palliative care is the path to advance the well-being of the patients and their families facing challenges related to dangerous disease and deadly sickness through safeguard and ease of discomfort by employing advanced recognition, evaluation and therapy and other issues such as physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Materials and Methods: Descriptive design was used for this research because it focuses on the what and why the phenomenon for example, what is palliative care and why is it important. Quantifying the participants and observing them through home visits. Results: In the interview of the patients, we found responses that palliative care is quite helpful for the cancer patients to manage and minimise and ease their symptoms and assists to relieve pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Conclusion: During the internship period in the Can Support organisation came across many cancer patients and some other mental problems such as dementia, the patients were included at any age. Can Support is the largest home-based palliative care in North India. This home-based palliative care helps cancer patients, especially those living below the poverty line and their families to minimise symptoms and ease their sufferings and give some instructions for their lifestyle and eating habits. They try to reduce the symptoms and give support mental, physical and psychological support to the patients and their families.