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Integration of Palliative and Hospice Care in Physical Therapy: A Much-Needed Professional Paradigm Shift

Integration of Palliative and Hospice Care in Physical Therapy: A Much-Needed Professional... CLINICAL CONVERSATION Integration of Palliative and Hospice Care in Physical Therapy: A Much-Needed Professional Paradigm Shift Lubayna Fawcett, PT, PhD Palliative Care Physiotherapy Consultant, Island Hospice & Healthcare, Harare, Zimbabwe; and Visiting Volunteer Lecturer, Department of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality prone to internalizing these false impressions of palliative of life of patients and their families while facing problems care. Contributing factors include (1) inadequate didac- associated with life-threatening illness. This is achieved tic and clinical training and exposure, (2) bias toward the 7,8 through the prevention and relief of suffering by means supremacy of technology-driven, curative medicine, and of early identification, impeccable assessment, and treat- (3) varying appreciations for the role and place of quality- ment of pain and other physical, psychosocial, and spiri- of-life assessments. Correspondingly, Western cultural tual problems. This definition of palliative care reflects its norms such as vigor, youth, and heroism, at a minimum, holistic nature: an interdisciplinary specialty medical care appear to suggest incompatibility with the notions of incur- model for patients facing serious illnesses as well as families able illness, aging, dying, and death. Among some cultural and direct caregivers. It http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Rehabilitation Oncology Wolters Kluwer Health

Integration of Palliative and Hospice Care in Physical Therapy: A Much-Needed Professional Paradigm Shift

Rehabilitation Oncology , Volume 38 (1) – Jan 1, 2020

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Wolters Kluwer Health
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© 2020 Academy of Oncologic Physical Therapy, APTA.
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2168-3808
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2381-2427
DOI
10.1097/01.REO.0000000000000187
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Abstract

CLINICAL CONVERSATION Integration of Palliative and Hospice Care in Physical Therapy: A Much-Needed Professional Paradigm Shift Lubayna Fawcett, PT, PhD Palliative Care Physiotherapy Consultant, Island Hospice & Healthcare, Harare, Zimbabwe; and Visiting Volunteer Lecturer, Department of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality prone to internalizing these false impressions of palliative of life of patients and their families while facing problems care. Contributing factors include (1) inadequate didac- associated with life-threatening illness. This is achieved tic and clinical training and exposure, (2) bias toward the 7,8 through the prevention and relief of suffering by means supremacy of technology-driven, curative medicine, and of early identification, impeccable assessment, and treat- (3) varying appreciations for the role and place of quality- ment of pain and other physical, psychosocial, and spiri- of-life assessments. Correspondingly, Western cultural tual problems. This definition of palliative care reflects its norms such as vigor, youth, and heroism, at a minimum, holistic nature: an interdisciplinary specialty medical care appear to suggest incompatibility with the notions of incur- model for patients facing serious illnesses as well as families able illness, aging, dying, and death. Among some cultural and direct caregivers. It

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Rehabilitation OncologyWolters Kluwer Health

Published: Jan 1, 2020

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