Author(s): Sharafat Ali
Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families who facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness. The approach of palliative care also provide them and their families a support system to cope with their problems associated with life changes. Along with this it make efforts to prevent their suffering, early identification of their problems through proper assessment, treatment of their problems and fulfill patient needs mainly psychosocial and spiritual need[1]. There are four domains that are physical, psychological, social and spiritual that can be affected in palliative care patient. All of these four domains were affected in my patient. But here I will only focused on two major domains which were effected in my patient that are physical and psychosocial. This case report will discuss about physical and psychosocial domains.
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