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Oct 7 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
It’s World Hospice & #PalliativeCare Day

For people facing life-threatening illnesses, palliative care provides:
💜practical help
💚physical care
🧡medicines
💙spiritual & emotional support

It relieves suffering & helps patients & their loved ones.

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#PalliativeCare requires services to focus on compassion as a glue that binds humans together.

Quality palliative care services are founded on:
💜 awareness of suffering
💚 empathy towards this suffering
💙 concrete action to alleviate this suffering

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It’s World Hospice & #PalliativeCare Day

Connection with loved ones in the final day of life can improve the #MentalHealth and well-being of patients and families, helping them cope in difficult moments.

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#PalliativeCare is not only at the end of life.

It can be considered early to help relieve troubling symptoms such as:
🔸 pain
🔸 breathlessness
🔸 vomiting

Palliative care benefits everyone.

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