The family conference as a means of family support in palliative care

Authors

  • Isabel Galriça Neto Assistente Graduada de Clínica Geral; Médica de Cuidados Paliativos, Equipa de Cuidados Continuados do C. S. Odivelas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32385/rpmgf.v19i1.9906

Keywords:

Palliative Care, Family Support, Family Conference

Abstract

he family represents a fundamental pillar in supporting the patient with increased needs, particularly at the stage of advanced disease, incurable and progressive. The crisis that suffering in palliative care is not only reaches the sick and all those who live with them and that you are emotionally attached. The problems inherent in this period of the life cycle require an appropriate response by the family doctor who, hopefully not acting alone, should not, however, dismiss monitoring the patient and family. Apart from expertise within the symptomatic support, palliative care, the family physician should also know orient in a structured family support that in many situations, involves planning and conducting a family conference. With this article we intend to pragmatically present some guidelines around this therapeutic tool, its use in palliative care, but hopefully that is extended to other areas of intervention of the family doctor.

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Published

2003-01-01

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2003): Revista Portuguesa de Clínica Geral

Section

Dossier

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How to Cite

The family conference as a means of family support in palliative care. (2003). Portuguese Journal of Family Medicine and General Practice, 19(1), 68-74. https://doi.org/10.32385/rpmgf.v19i1.9906