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Palliative Care Unit
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2022/7/26 8:28:06
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Palliative Care Unit
Location: Floor 11 of the Second Medical Building.
Service Philosophy
Palliative care is provided for patients with life threatening diseases as well as their families. For improving life quality of such patients, the Palliative Care Unit aims at relieving mental and physical pain of the patients based on a detailed medical evaluation. Team care is adopted in order to satisfy the needs of patients and their families and help families to adjust to the situation before and after the death of the patient to deliver hospice care in five aspects (family, patient, team, process and community).
Service Object
Patients meeting the requirements of hospice care as specified by the Ministry of Health and Welfare are those with cancer, motor neurone disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), senile dementia, brain lesions (such as stroke, Parkinson's disease), heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, severe pulmonary fibrosis, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis and the final stages of renal failure etc.. The patients must also meet the following two prerequisites:
Service Philosophy
Palliative care is provided for patients with life threatening diseases as well as their families. For improving life quality of such patients, the Palliative Care Unit aims at relieving mental and physical pain of the patients based on a detailed medical evaluation. Team care is adopted in order to satisfy the needs of patients and their families and help families to adjust to the situation before and after the death of the patient to deliver hospice care in five aspects (family, patient, team, process and community).
Service Object
Patients meeting the requirements of hospice care as specified by the Ministry of Health and Welfare are those with cancer, motor neurone disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), senile dementia, brain lesions (such as stroke, Parkinson's disease), heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, severe pulmonary fibrosis, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis and the final stages of renal failure etc.. The patients must also meet the following two prerequisites:
- Patient or his/her family agrees to receive the palliative care and has signed the Letter of Intent or Consent to Palliative Care.
- A patient who has been identified as terminally ill with severe physical symptoms or social or psychological distress and needs hospitalization care according to the evaluation of his/her attending physician.