Revista Internacional de Psicologia Escolar e Cognitiva
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Psycho-social and spiritual support for quality life

Maksym Bosenko

Background: Palliative care is a approach that improves the standard of lifetime of patients (children and adults) and their families who are faced with problems related to a life-threatening disease by preventing and alleviating suffering for thanks to the first detection, careful assessment and treatment of pain and other physical symptoms, also because the provision of psychosocial and spiritual support. Psychosocial and spiritual support shouldn’t be stopped with the death of the patient; it should continue during the amount of mourning