Professional paper
FAMILY AS THE FUNDAMENTAL CORE OF PALLIATIVE CARE - CASE REPORT
Mirica Rapić
Brigitta Mačešić
Marina Rapić Mrgan
Abstract
The vast majority of terminally ill patients want care and the dying in their homes, in their familiar surroundings, with her family. For patients, this often means a reduction in the fear of being alone, a greater sense of security and improvement of the
symptoms. The greatest burden in implementing palliative care in the home of patients submitted overloaded family member, a key member, and this is his carer. He must be in close cooperation with your family doctor and inform him about any upcoming changes
sufferer. Family physician if necessary to organize within their capabilities help and consultation on horizontal and vertical level of home care, physical therapy, home care services, medical transport
services, removing samples at home to laboratory analyses, receiving parenteral therapy, consultations with specialist services, psychological assistance, etc., and through home visits your team solve acute acquired health. disorders. But the responsibility is
on the whole society and the health care system in the organization to help oboljelome and families in those hardest. Daily and long-term care ill inmates can be extremely mentally and physically exhausting for a key member of the family, because the length of life in the terminal phase is unpredictable. Balance between their own needs, the needs of the patient and other family members can lead to the caregiver exhaustion. The physician must recognize the signs of fatigue and the key people at a time to provide her help and support. Most important is that the patient and his family know that one of them did not “given up”, but that will be with them all the
time remaining to be spent together. In this paper, we show palliative care in their own home, seriously ill patients with multifunction
impairments after stroke. In addition to medical, psychological and spiritual help oboljelome and his family, and the permanent care key persons, wife ill, the patient survived 2.3 g in a family environment,
and died at the family’s wishes with your loved ones. Would you perhaps be more family help?
Keywords
palliative care; a family; a key member; a family physician
Hrčak ID:
136261
URI
Publication date:
13.3.2015.
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