Aged patients in palliative care
the impact on their spouses
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https://doi.org/10.5712/rbmfc17(44)2947Keywords:
Pair bound, Palliative Care, Aging, Marriage.Abstract
Introduction: A constant growth in the number of elderlies in Brazil highlights the importance of dialogues about end of life. Brazil was 42th positioned in the Death Quality Index publicized in 2015, which reflects a need of improvements in quality of death associated to institution of strong and effective national politics of Palliative Care. Objective: To produce an integrative review about how the application of PC in elderly people help their partner/spouse in the terminality process when compared to patient that do not receive PC. Methods: It was produced an Integrative Review with articles of the databases PUBMED and BVS during the period of 2000 to August 2020. Results: The main results demonstrated that caregivers that utilized PC reported more discrete symptoms of post-death depression and anxiety, in comparison with did not used PC. The most important determinants of satisfaction with PC were the professional help available and holistic attendance, when including family and observing their physic, psychologic, spiritual and psychosocial determinants. Conclusions: As presented, frequently it is responsibility of the partner/spouse to assume a caregiver role. The isolation and exclusive dedication of the caregiver could initiate depressive feelings and overload, especially when there is a lack of support. In this scientific work it could be observed that the use of PC can provide a better understanding of the illness evolutive process, since the beginning of evolution until family grief.
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