Question

Provide an example of a religious preference that people accessing palliative care services may have and explain how this may influence the care planning process.

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is: • Coordination between the religious care team and the rest to share, with the relevant consent, relevant information and to be able to make a comprehensive and respectful attention to the values ​​and beliefs of each person.

Explanation:

Spiritual and religious needs are very personal and important for many people at the end of life, and therefore have to be part of palliative care services.

People who live their end manifest a series of spiritual needs: a) ethical; b) philosophical; c) of limited temporal significance, and d) properly n spiritual in the primitive sense, such as man's relationship with God, and continuity of life after death.

The socio-health care for the elderly with diverse models of spirituality and religiosity are the following:

• Develop validated instruments to detect the spiritual needs of the elderly.

• Knowledge and respect of the various modes of spiritual meaning of death.

• Respect for the “religious” experience of the death of the elderly, avoiding “prejudices”.

• Know and facilitate existing spiritual and religious resources.

• Coordination between the religious care team and the rest to share, with the relevant consent, relevant information and to be able to provide comprehensive and respectful attention to the values ​​and beliefs of each person.

• Address the religious dimension in the death and farewell of the body.

• Encourage meeting, training and reflection spaces to understand the experience of dying from various spiritual perspectives.