Rehabilitation as a relevant factor in improvement of the quality of life in palliative patients

Introduction Palliative care is a medical field focused on enhancing the quality of life for terminally ill patients rather than curing their disease. It involves a multidisciplinary team that aims to improve patients' well-being, manage pain, alleviate other physical symptoms, and ease mental...

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Published in:Quality in Sport 2024-07, Vol.17, p.53021
Main Authors: Chrościcka, Alicja, Gała, Kamil, Czajka, Andrzej, Lenard, Paweł, Kucharski, Adam, Michalska, Sara, Pilarski, Konrad, Dewicka, Martyna, Wawrzyniak, Alicja Maria, Makuch, Rafał
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
palliative care
physical rehabilitation
psychosocial rehabilitation
pulmonary rehabilitation
speech and language rehabilitation
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Summary:Introduction Palliative care is a medical field focused on enhancing the quality of life for terminally ill patients rather than curing their disease. It involves a multidisciplinary team that aims to improve patients' well-being, manage pain, alleviate other physical symptoms, and ease mental suffering. The purpose of this work is to show how much rehabilitation is important for palliative patients and improves the quality of life.  State of Knowledge The article contains different types of rehabilitation that seem to be useful in daily challenges of palliative patients. Chosen types of rehabilitation are: physical, pulmonary, speech and language and psychosocial. Material and methodsThe method obtaining the data is based on medical reviews including WHO reports about rehabilitation and palliative care showing what is a relationship between them. Summary  All of the studies and reviews showed a strong relationship between each type of rehabilitation and improvement of quality of life of palliative patients. Each type of rehabilitation touches different areas of struggle for palliative patients as mobility, pain, communication with surrounding, anxiety, stress and social exclusion.
ISSN:2450-3118
2450-3118
DOI:10.12775/QS.2024.17.53021