The Role of Palliative Care in Caring for the Families of Patients With COVID-19.

The Role of Palliative Care in Caring for the Families of Patients With COVID-19. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2020 Jun 08;:1049909120931506 Authors: Bakar M, Capano E, Patterson M, McIntyre B, Walsh CJ Abstract In palliative care, we strive to provide care to the whole patient. When we think about the whole patient, we include the people who are important in our patients' lives. Our New York City-based palliative care team has found that caring for patients' loved ones has proven to be an even more important aspect of the care we have provided during the COVID epidemic. In this article, we describe the multicomponenet interdisciplinary interventions we have implemented to enhance our ability to create a therapeutic alliance with family members and facilitate the provision of goal concordant care to patients with COVID during this extremely difficult time. PMID: 32508107 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Tags: Am J Hosp Palliat Care Source Type: research