0 (of a drug or medical treatment) reducing pain without curing the cause of the pain:
Older people facing a terminal illness may want to choose palliative care only.
The success of chemotherapy as a form of palliative treatment depends on the type of tumour.
Short-term, palliative measures were taken which gave the appearance that the problems were being addressed.
Some of the palliative strategies do not make sense.
1 a drug or medical treatment that reduces pain without curing the cause of the pain:
Most of the AIDS research community were either working on vaccines for prevention or on stronger palliatives.
The substance has been consumed as a palliative by indigenous groups in Appalachia.
We want long-term solutions, not short-term palliatives.
Knitting became a palliative for Mary as the long miserable days stretched out ahead.
We need to integrate palliative care into mainstream medicine.
All of these will be only palliative measures if we go on increasing our global population.
Patients receiving palliative care often show more marked changes in physical and cognitive function than other medical patients.
Before promoting a wide implementation of the intervention, however, we first propose to document its efficacy on a first sample of palliative care nurses.
This edited book does this by presenting discussions about palliative care for older people in care-homes.
Nurses mention enjoying their encounter with peers working in other settings and sharing their interest in palliative care.
Given this limitation, it is apparent that populations with specific palliative care needs like those dying with dementia have also been neglected in the research.
