{"title":"All Palliative Care Should Be Integrative Palliative Care.","authors":"Delia Chiaramonte","doi":"10.1080/15360288.2024.2377998","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Integrative medicine and palliative care are philosophically similar, with a focus on whole person care and wellbeing. Integrative medicine provides a large toolbox of evidence-informed treatment modalities but doesn't prioritize the care of seriously ill people. Palliative care takes a holistic approach to reducing the suffering of seriously ill people, their families, and their caregivers, but the available treatment toolbox is often limited to pharmaceuticals, procedures, and radiation. The ideal care of families facing serious illness employs the philosophy and conventional expertise of palliative care clinicians coupled with an evidence-supported expanded treatment toolbox provided by the field of complementary and integrative medicine. This emerging field is called integrative palliative care. Reducing physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering is the fundamental goal of palliative care and all available effective tools should be employed toward this aim. Therefore, all palliative care should be integrative palliative care.</p>","PeriodicalId":16645,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy","volume":" ","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15360288.2024.2377998","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ANESTHESIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Integrative medicine and palliative care are philosophically similar, with a focus on whole person care and wellbeing. Integrative medicine provides a large toolbox of evidence-informed treatment modalities but doesn't prioritize the care of seriously ill people. Palliative care takes a holistic approach to reducing the suffering of seriously ill people, their families, and their caregivers, but the available treatment toolbox is often limited to pharmaceuticals, procedures, and radiation. The ideal care of families facing serious illness employs the philosophy and conventional expertise of palliative care clinicians coupled with an evidence-supported expanded treatment toolbox provided by the field of complementary and integrative medicine. This emerging field is called integrative palliative care. Reducing physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering is the fundamental goal of palliative care and all available effective tools should be employed toward this aim. Therefore, all palliative care should be integrative palliative care.