The Effect of Psychosocial Support Given to Elderly Patient and Their Families in Palliative Care

Abstract

Diseases that are life-threatening and require long-term treatment affect the patient and his family in many ways. Interdisciplinary care is applied to people who are being treated for these diseases. Through this care, aims to prevent and alleviate the pain that occurs with proper planning, which improves the quality of life, prevents physical, psychosocial and mental problems such as pain. This understanding of care, which provides for a multi-dimensional assessment process, focuses on maintaining the patient's routine in the normal course of life and considers death as part of the normal process, is called palliative care. This article aims to provide information about psychosocial supportive nursing interventions in palliative care, their components, and the effects of these interventions. The care that patients and their families want to receive in the conditions to which they are accustomed in the last period of their lives, who have to fight a deadly disease and the negative processes that it brings, can help them calmly go through this period, protect a person from dangers for the physical and psychological health, improve quality of life, improve the healing process. It has been found to help prevent negative emotions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. It is believed that increasing the number of research in this area will improve the quality of care and improve patient satisfaction.