PECULIARITIES OF THE ASSESSMENT OF LIFE QUALITY OF INCURABLE PATIENTS
New approaches in diagnostics and treatment of different illnesses substantially change the perception of a concrete disease. The problems of a sick person are beyond the traditional framework since they intend to consider not only clinical but also psychological and social events while making practical medical decisions. Special features of providing palliative care to incurable patients are reflected on the estimation of their quality of life. Using this criterion it is important to take into account not only physical signs, but psychological, social components, which prevail and sharply limit the vital activity and viability. This leads to the need for a constant systemic dynamic observation of the state of a patient to correct and provide medico-social help and psychological support and to satisfy the needs of an incurable patient. Dynamic observation of an incurable patient makes it possible to estimate and change the quality of palliative aid providing, to improve the quality of life on the whole.