Medical attention at the end of life
A contribution from Caring Together. (Issued 5 March 2006)
In a country such as Spain, where as a result of advances in medicine there has been a considerable increase in the expectation of life, there has been a consequent increase in the number of people with chronic and incurable diseases.
This, along with social, cultural and economic change, has profoundly affected family structure and, as a result, the role of the family in the care of sick people is also in process of change.
Among those whose illnesses are most advanced, or terminal, chronic illnesses have many distressing aspects. They generate pain, both physical and emotional, in around 70% of cases , according to a group of Spanish doctors who published a report on medical attention at the end of life as long ago as 2002.
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Admin on March 5th 2006 in Press releases