A última morada: relato de observações em hospitais especializados (hospices)

Abstract

The paliative care developed in Hospices from Spain, England, United States and Germany objectives to take care of cancer terminal patients. The main focus is the pain relief and symptoms controlling, while seeking life quality for the patients. Visits and observations in different Hospices were taken in arder to improve the research subject in this field. The pioneers, the different modalities (day-care,home care and in-patient); the new treatments accepted by the medical community; the complementary therapies and their objectives as well as the psychologist role in working with psychological manifestations at the terminal life period are also approached in the present article.