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September 23-24, 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic
2
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International Conference on
Palliative Care
Clinical Trials and Pharmacovigilance
Joint Event
&
Traditional and complementary medical practices in geriatric palliative care
Sibel Doğan
İstanbul Medipol University, Turkey
A
ging population has almost become a global issue
because aging population causes crucial problems in the
world. Life expectancy at birth rises all over the world; which
has resulted in increasing rate of the elderly population.
Elderly individuals are the primary consumers of health and
social care services and therefore, provision of a good service
is of critical importance for their quality of life. That is why
recent studies have focused on palliative care in geriatric
population. Today, most of the palliative care patients are
composed of geriatric patients. Holistic and integrative
palliative care - assessing the elderly individuals’ physical,
psychological, spiritual, socio-cultural and environmental
comfort needs- targets at their unmet needs through comfort
building practices. To provide and to maintain comfort in
palliative care, it is important to control pain and other
disturbing symptoms as well as psychological, social and
spiritual problems. Hence, evidence based traditional and
complementary medical practices can be helpful.
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