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Integrative Therapies to Support Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Lung Disease

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Patients with advanced lung disease are living longer. They constitute a significant proportion of the US population suffering with serious chronic illness whose quality of life (QOL) is suboptimal due to inadequately assessed or addressed high symptom burden from their disease. Early integration of palliative care’s interdisciplinary approach can improve the illness experience of these patients and their families. It can improve their satisfaction with care and facilitate transition of care to less aggressive interventions when appropriate. Timely hospice care referral can minimize patient and family suffering at end of life. Improved clinician identification of symptom burden and communication of prognosis are skills needed to permit earlier palliative and hospice care. Evidence-based integrative or complementary therapies can be utilized to effectively supplement allopathic palliative treatment of multidimensional symptoms expressed by seriously ill patients and families. Further research is needed to strengthen the evidence base for integrative therapy in chronic lung disease and to determine the most optimal point and delivery method for integration of palliative approaches into treatment plans for these patients.

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Gordon-Kolb, S.W. (2012). Integrative Therapies to Support Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Lung Disease. In: Chlan, L., Hertz, M. (eds) Integrative Therapies in Lung Health and Sleep. Respiratory Medicine, vol 4. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-579-4_14

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