Palliative care in neurological patients: a literature review

Abstract

Objective: To understand neuropalliative care, its individualities and the care process. Review bibliographic: Palliative care is indicated in advanced, progressive and incurable diseases, but it can be due to any lack of reasonable possibility of response to a specific treatment, as in certain abrupt neurological conditions. Thus, progressive degenerative neurological diseases tend to suggest that life will come to an end, so the individual tends to social and spatial isolation, along with depression and loneliness. From this, the team must redirect its efforts to providing quality of life for these people. Moreover, in this delicate moment, attention to the family is essential, reinforcing resilience and avoiding stressors in the family environment. To alleviate this, it is necessary that the palliative care team has psychological support and encourages the spiritual search as a source of well-being. If it is well approached and with an open dialogue, the patient's terminality process is accepted with more ease and comfort for the family. Considerations final: Palliative care must be individualized for each patient. In addition, professionals must be increasingly trained, with a holistic view, given the need for refined and humanized listening.