Introduction:

Many people suffer from Dementia due to illness or, with the growing age. However Palliative and dementia care can help a person to improve their living. Here they are medically treated along with their treatment of specific illnesses such as cancer or, heart disease. Here a person goes through sensitive observation and then the treatment is recommended based on that observation.

Palliative care has proven to be effective in many ways and has helped many patients dealing with dementia. Do you think any of your close ones need this treatment to get a better life? Then read this article to the end to know about it in more detail. We will be discussing about the role of this care in human life.

The Essential Role Of Palliative And Dementia Care -

Common symptoms management:

Palliative care helps the patient to deal with common symptoms of their diseases. They recommend medicines by which the patient can get free from pain. It also helps to deal with dementia, breathlessness and constip

ation a problem that occurs due to ageing or, severe illness. As a result, your patient gets to lead a quality life. They hope to fight their physical or, mental illness after they get palliative care. The care is done with proper medical care and the purpose of this care is to make a better living for the patients.

Improves the quality of life:

As palliative care helps the patient deal with the illness by reducing the pain, the patient’s quality of life improves. They are no longer indifferent to their lives and get to feel the importance of living. Since severe disease can damage a person physically and mentally, they cannot enjoy their living and start thinking that dying is better than living. But palliative care also works with their psychology and makes them mentally strong. So that the patient can have a better life as long as they are alive.

Improves communication level:

Having a conversation with the patient is a part of dementia care. The nurses try to communicate with the patients to know about their mental state. Even the nurses are specially trained to provide palliative care to the patient. They also try to improve the communication level of the patient through their therapy. In general, the patients tend to talk very less when they are going through these stages of life. But after getting palliative care, they start to have conversations with the doctor and nurses and this is helpful for their treatment. 

Improves their social life:

When people are going for dementia care, they cannot recognise their closed ones well. They don’t like to see them or, communicate with them. But after getting the care, they start to communicate with the people around them. And it helps in improving their social life which is important for every human being. And their bonding with family members gets revived after getting dementia care. Since they start connecting with other people, they no longer feel lonely and it improves their living.

Holistic care:

Here in palliative care, the patient does not only go through medical treatment but also a holistic approach. Which includes sensitivity, compassion and concern for every individual going through the treatment. Here the caregivers have a non-judgemental mentality. So what kind of illness the patient has, which religion or, place do they belong to, or, how their personality is, none of them matters in this treatment. So this is not only medical treatment but also provides spiritual and cultural support to the patient.

End-of-life care:

No matter how severe your illness is, you should live your life until your last breath. A patient goes through palliative care when he/she is suffering from a life-limiting disease. But this care makes them understand that death is normal but they should not stop living until they die. It gives them mental support so that the patient can be mentally strong regardless of their physical state. So getting this type of care is really important for every patient going through this type of illness. This way they can due at ease and not feel depressed because of their diseases. 

Improves the acceptance power:

We feel angry when we have very little acceptance power. But when our acceptance power increases we don’t get angry that easily. Since the patient is already aware of the reality of the terminal disease, they may get angry thinking why it has to be them. Palliative care helps them to accept reality through their therapy. As a result, even though the patient knows that he/she is going to die soon, they still try to live happily. So that they can spend the remaining time making good memories. 

Conclusion:

We hope that you have understood the importance of palliative care. Every life is important no matter what the situation is. So we should make sure that everyone is getting to live a better life.