title: [About palliative assistance for elderly patients (review)].
abstract: The State has the obligation to guarantee every person the right to palliative care access. Palliative care focuses on relieving the symptoms of the disease and preventing the patient's suffering at any stage of the illness. Comprehensive focus on patients' and families' emotional and spiritual needs as well as symptom management distinguishes palliative care from routine medical care. The aim of the study was to analyze the morbidity rate of the palliative patients in the Hospital of Nursing Care in Almaty. The investigation showed that all patients were hospitalized in accordance with the profile of the Hospital of Nursing Care. The medical and rehabilitation management of the patients is satisfactory. The research showed the necessity to develop and implement effective palliative care State programs to develop high quality hospice palliative care services in all towns of Kazakhstan with population over 100 thousands people. Thus every life-limited or life-threatened person in Kazakhstan will have access to high quality palliative care and support.
authors.forename: G K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Kausova
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Nuftieva
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017051:Hospice Care / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D065126:Palliative Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D010361:Patients