Palliative Care in Rehabilitation and Occupational Medicine
Increasing personal satisfaction is the main goal of recovery medicine. In addition to the symptoms of their illness and the medication, patients often experience severe psychological distress after being diagnosed and beginning therapy.
Rehabilitative therapy creates strategies to address common obstacles to achieving goals, like dyspnea, fatigue, anxiety, and depression. Occupational therapy is a vital component of palliative and hospice care groups; it involves identifying meaningful activities and tasks from patients' daily lives (their "occupations") and removing barriers that keep them from participating in them. Unlike other forms of healthcare, they concentrate on the patient's most important objectives, the resources that are available, networks of people who are emotionally supportive, and the circumstances in which the patient needs assistance.