Project

Palliative care is a comprehensive approach aimed at ensuring the highest possible quality of life for patients and their families by preventing and alleviating suffering through early detection and accurate diagnosis of pain and disorders of vital functions, adequate treatment measures, and symptomatic (adjuvant) therapy.

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Palliative care is a comprehensive approach aimed at ensuring the highest possible quality of life for patients and their families by preventing and alleviating suffering through early detection and accurate diagnosis of pain and disorders of vital functions, adequate treatment measures, and symptomatic (adjuvant) therapy.

 

Diseases in which palliative care is required:

 

Adult population:

 

- Malignant neoplasms;

- Motor neurone disease, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis);

- Chronic heart failure;

- Dementia, Alzheimer's disease;

- Patients after an acute cerebrovascular accident;

- Diabetes;

- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, palliative care patients with/after COVID-19;

- Patients with pressure ulcers, trophic ulcers, wounds, etc.

 

Children's population:

 

- Oncological diseases,

 

- Congenital malformations of the nervous system (hydrocephalus, microcephaly)

-- Neuromuscular diseases (muscular dystrophies, cerebral palsy, accompanied by epilepsy);

- Genetic defects (Edwards, Leigh, Patau and other syndromes), severe multiple developmental disorders.

 

With the assistance of the Mykhailo Vasilevsky Charitable Foundation, a project to provide palliative care to adults and children is being implemented in Bucha and Irpin.