Palyatif Bakımda Yaşlı Hasta ve Ailesine Verilen Psikososyal Desteğin Etkisi

Abstract

Diseases that are life-threatening and require long-term treatment affect the patient and his family in many ways. Interdisciplinary care is applied to people who are being treated for these diseases. This care aims to prevent and alleviate the pain experienced with a good planning, which provides the prevention of physical, psychosocial and mental problems such as pain that increases the quality of life. This understanding of care, which provides for a multi-dimensional assessment process, focuses on maintaining the patient's routine in the normal course of life and considers death as part of the normal process, is called palliative care. This article aimed at conducting a systematic review to identify the components of palliative care and the effects of psychosocial nursing interventions on palliative care patients and their families. The care that patients and their families want to receive in the conditions to which they are accustomed in the last period of their lives, who have to fight a deadly disease and the negative processes that it brings, can help them calmly go through this period, protect a person from dangers for the physical and psychological health, improve quality of life, improve the healing process. It has been found to help prevent negative emotions such as posttraumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. It is believed that increasing the number of research in this area will improve the quality of care and improve patient satisfaction.