Paliatívna medicína a liečba bolesti 1/2009

Bereavement care – possibilities and limits of proffesional support

Dying in the family is an important loss causes large psychosocial, spiritual and often also physical pain. Professionals in terminal palliative care can not forget to cover in holistic care the mourners – and not only in the time after death of their relative. The article describes an authors and multidisciplinary hospice team experience in bereavement care, in terminal palliative care settings.

Keywords: bereavement care, holistic model of care, psychosocial and spiritual pain, grieve.