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International palliative care: Middle East experience as a model for global palliative care
Ramzi R Hajjar1, Haris A Charalambous2, Lea Baider3
1Geriatrics Medicine and Palliative Care Service, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Riad El Solh, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon.
Abstract:
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.
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