International palliative care: Middle east experience as a model for global palliative care
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W.B. Saunders
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Care for elderly people with life-limiting illness cannot be delivered primarily by geriatricians or palliative care practitioners. The role of these clinicians is to help carers become adept in palliative care medicine. In a culture in which family ties run deep, the offer of palliative care from an outsider may be met with suspicion. The family bond in the Middle East is strong, but the emotional response to terminal illness may push families to request futile treatments, and physicians to comply. When palliative care is well developed and well understood, it provides a viable alternative to such extreme terminal measures. © 2015 Elsevier Inc.
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Aging, Cancer care, Culture, Family, Illness, Middle east, Palliative care, Treatment, Aged, Cross-cultural comparison, Family relations, Humans, Physician-patient relations, Western world, Narcotic analgesic agent, Attitude to death, Capacity building, Cultural sensitivity, Cultural value, Developing country, Drug control, Education program, Health care availability, Health care policy, Hospice care, Human, Life expectancy, Medical decision making, Palliative therapy, Personnel shortage, Religion, Review, Social belief, Terminal care, Terminal disease, Cultural anthropology, Cultural factor, Doctor patient relation, Ethics, Ethnology, Family relation, Organization and management, Psychology