top of page

Care priorities

Definition

of

Care priorities

from

Digitising Social Care Glossary, v0.0.3

Digitising Social Care

The priorities agreed between the person and their health/care team, where the person has capacity: To get better; please consider all treatment to prolong life. To achieve a balance between getting better and ensuring good quality of life; please consider selected treatments. Comfort; please consider all treatments aimed at symptom control.

If a flag appears next to this message, click on it to see others' comments about this definition

See discussion

Synonym of
Not to be confused with
See also
See other terms relating to
Use instead of
Consider using instead
Parent of
Child of

Comment on definitions of

Care priorities

Thanks for submitting!

Contact us with a general query or comment about the glossary

You can comment on specific words/terms or definitions from the relevant page.

Thanks for submitting!

bottom of page