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- Title
Animal-Assisted Therapy in Palliative Care.
- Authors
QUINTAL, Vanessa; REIS-PINA, Paulo
- Abstract
There are still many cases where traditional medical care does not provide a realistic solution for patients with devastating diseases so other interventions should be adopted. We present a case report of a 76 year-old woman admitted to a Palliative Care unit due to stage IV colon adenocarcinoma, and we describe the contribution of a six-year-old Yorkshire terrier in her symptom management. Animal-assisted therapy can be of great use in palliative care, contributing to the patients' pain management, relief from suffering and improvement of quality of life.
- Subjects
ANIMAL-assisted therapy; PALLIATIVE treatment; COLON cancer diagnosis; COLON cancer treatment; GASTROINTESTINAL cancer
- Publication
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2021, Vol 34, Issue 10, p690
- ISSN
0870-399X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.20344/amp.13164