บทบาทของครอบครัวกับการดูแลแบบประคับประคอง เพื่อสุขภาวะระยะท้ายของชีวิต

Abstract

The goal of family is to let their love one to be with them as long as possible. The goal of multidisciplinary health professionals is generally to cure patient focusing mainly on patients’ benefits. However, some illness cannot be cured and move patient’s life to the end. Besides patients and their family members were sadly affected by illness, losing the love one is devastated and grieving. Then the aims of incurable illness focusing on providing comfortable, control pain according to medical treatment plan, and maintain quality of life. All carers or family members should know how to give care at the end of life including caring for carers who encountering lost and grieve. Palliative care should be started immediately to provide wellbeing at the end of patients’ life and their family according to a new concept of palliative care. Family members plays a significant role in giving care in terms of physical, mental, psychosocial, spiritual, and legal.