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The ultimate goal of Palliative Care is to provide wellbeing, comfort and support<\/strong> to patients and their families in the final stages of a terminal illness. We aim to ensure that patients are conscious and free of pain, with the symptoms under control, without subjecting them to tests or aggressive treatments that are useless for the vital prognosis, in order to achieve that the person preserves his dignity<\/strong> during this last phase of the disease.<\/p>\n Palliative Care does not accelerate the process of dying. It does not prolong life, but it does not accelerate death either. It only provides medical expertise and emotional and spiritual support to offer relief to the person<\/strong> when the disease progresses and is irreversible and incurable. A specific training<\/strong> in Palliative Care is vital to be able to face the terminal illness with guarantees for the patient and his family. It is not easy to make decisions about, for example, the Limitation of Therapeutic Effort<\/strong> or the beginning of a Terminal Sedation<\/strong>, as ethical, religious and medical practice principles get mixed.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.insideinternistas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/cuidados_paliativos.jpg” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23″ animation_style=”fade” animation_duration=”500ms” animation=”fade_in” sticky=”off” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” always_center_on_mobile=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”justified” module_alignment=”left” use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The Hospice Movement takes place in the Catholic Hospices of Dublin and London in the middle of the last century. One of the pioneering centres was the St. Cristhopher’s Hospice in London, founded by a nurse named Cicely Saunders<\/strong>, and it can be considered the birthplace of the modern Hospice Movement and of Palliative Care. Palliative Care arrived in Spain in the eighties, when some professionals became aware that there was a different way of caring for terminally ill patients. With the merit of the pioneers, they sought training, and got to know closely the reality that was underway. Only a few had the unconditional support of health officials from the beginning.<\/p>\n