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Palliative care services

The forms of palliative care are:

1) outpatient palliative care; it is carried out by a multidisciplinary team of palliative care and a service room in primary health care institutions of the republic (in cases not provided for by round-the-clock medical supervision and treatment, including through home calls).
2) mobile (mobile) palliative care; carried out by an appropriate multidisciplinary removable team in relation to the patient who is unable to move independently, or the movement is due to difficulties, or at his request.
3) palliative hospital (inpatient) medical care; carried out through an interdisciplinary team in hospital facilities in the presence of a palliative care unit or beds or services.
4) palliative care in a hospice; provided by a multidisciplinary team to patients who are in the last stage of development of diseases that require long-term care in an inpatient setting.
See: https://www.arlis.am/DocumentView.aspx?DocID=132500

Palliative care is provided 7 days a week on a 24-hour basis:
The principles of palliative care are:

  1. establish life by recognizing death as a natural process,
  2. control pain and other symptoms,
  3. neither to hasten nor to postpone death,
  4. if necessary, include psychological, social and spiritual spheres in medical care,
  5. help the patient to live as full a life as possible until death,
  6. help the family, caregiver adjust to the patient’s illness and overcome the loss of the patient,
  7. take a team approach to the patient’s needs,
  8. provide life-prolonging medical care (chemotherapy, radiation therapy, etc.), conduct research to understand and manage the necessary severe clinical complications: https://www.arlis.am/DocumentView.aspx?DocID=132500