What is a Good Death: End-of-Life Care in India?
Received Date: Sep 30, 2021 / Accepted Date: Oct 14, 2021 / Published Date: Oct 21, 2021
Abstract
End-of-life care is a humanistic approach that aims to deliver the quality of life for those patients and families facing life-limiting advanced medical illnesses in clinical practices. It demands a holistic assessment through multidisciplinary team interventions to effectively encounter the patient's psychological sufferings, social isolation, and mental disharmony. However, end-of-life care is still an unheard area of care in most parts of the Indian subcontinent. The health care systems in the country like UK, America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc., were at an advanced stage of delivering 'good death' in the face of painful, life-threatening medical illness. The goal of endof-life care is not to shorten neither prolong the patient's life but to focus on alleviating pain and improving quality of life. Yet, 80% of the terminally ill patients in India failed to received end-of-life care. Effective implementation of plan and policy, maximum availability of essential medications, and public awareness are the current challenges in Indian palliative end-of-life care.
Keywords: End-of-life care; Ethical principles; Legal norms; Palliative care
Citation: Suantak Demkhosei Vaiphei (2021) What is a Good Death: End-of-Life Care in India?J Pallit Care Med 11: 436.
Copyright: © 2021 Vaiphei SD. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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