INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL REHABILITATION AND PALLIATIVE MEDICINE.2015.2(2):43-48; doi 10.15574/IJRPM.2015.2.43 
 

The structure and characteristics of the psychological component of palliative care 
 

Zhogno I. P.

PNPU after the name of K.D.Ushinsky, Odesa sity 
 

Palliative care for patients with limited life prognosis, among others, includes psychological support. Its initialization involves accurate diagnosis of mental status of the patient, which may change before diagnosis limited life prognosis. Throughout the period of palliative care for psychological support is an obligate component of palliative care and includes several thematic sections – the purpose of achieving multidisciplinary team that can provide the necessary volume and quality of services. In our study, we used a review of the professional literature and content analysis of the concept of “psychological component of palliative care”. The basis of the study, we used a multi-disciplinary and holistic approach, as well as the patient-centered concept of palliative care. Determining a patient-centered approach as a base to provide palliative care, we used the concept of sustainability, which is recognized as EAPD and provides a radical change in the paradigm of the interaction of all participants in palliative care with the patient. By stability, we mean the ability of the patient to live with an incurable disease and to overcome problems caused by disease, psychologically accept the need to change the plans for the future, due to premature departure from life. Given the potential benefits of the personal life of the patient, it is clear that such changes in the structure of his personality acquire a critical mass in the general problems of palliative care and forced to pay special attention to all the participants of palliative care, especially in its psychological component. In the course of our research structure psihololgicheskogo component of palliative care, we identified four main elements, expressed in the form of the required characteristics – its objectives, namely: mediation, communication, ethics, adaptability. 
 

Key words: palliative care, multidisciplinary approach, a patient with a limited life prognosis, end-of-life issues, psychological support, dignified death. 
 

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