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- Title
Importancia de la tanatología en pacientes con enfermedades neurológicas.
- Authors
Ochoa-Morales, Adriana; Alonso Vilatela, María Elisa
- Abstract
A great number of patients with neurological disorders have to face the loss of physical abilities and have to depend from other persons to do their daily activities. This implies that the patient and his/her family have to confront more than one mourning during the disease, before the patient dies. Some patients and/or relatives can afford professional family can ask for healthy team help, for that it is necessary that it has the basic knowledge about tanatological aspects to help to the person need to resolve in a better way the loss of health or a liver of a family member. A strategy that can help in this difficult process is the communication between the patient/family and the health team that can prevent problems at the end of life.
- Subjects
NEUROLOGICAL disorders; COMMUNICATION; DEATH; MEDICAL personnel; PATIENTS' families; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Archivos de Neurociencias, 2011, Vol 16, Issue 2, p86
- ISSN
1028-5938
- Publication type
Article