Cuidados Paliativos e a Renitência dos Doentes. Como ultrapassar? - Relato de Caso

Marta Valentim Cardoso; Cátia Branco; Sandra Mimoso Guedes; Diana Gonçalves

doi:10.6063/motricidade.33941

Palliative Care and Patient Reluctance. How to overcome? – Case Report

Authors

Marta Valentim Cardoso https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3763-2478
Cátia Branco USF Régua https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3432-2660
Sandra Mimoso Guedes USF Régua https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8140-8466
Diana Gonçalves https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6554-1110

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6063/motricidade.33941

Keywords:

palliative care, primary healthcare, family doctor, case report

Abstract

Palliative care is a holistic and multidisciplinary care that focuses on the patient and their family/caregivers, prioritising comfort and quality of life. Primary healthcare involvement is crucial to making palliative care practices accessible, early, and effective. This article reports the case of a woman diagnosed with metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma (pT4bN3M1), with rapid progression, whose follow-up and palliative guidance were carried out by her family doctor, given the patient's and her family's reluctance to be referred to palliative care. This case report reinforces the role and impact of the family doctor in timely and correct coordination with palliative care, as well as the need to dispel misconceptions associated with palliative care, particularly the idea that it is exclusive to end-of-life situations and an alternative to curative treatments.

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Published

2024-03-31

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Valentim Cardoso, M., Branco, C., Mimoso Guedes, S., & Gonçalves, D. (2024). Palliative Care and Patient Reluctance. How to overcome? – Case Report. Motricidade, 20(1), 116–119. https://doi.org/10.6063/motricidade.33941

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Vol. 20 No. 1 (2024): Continuing and Palliative Care: New Challenges in Health

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Case Report

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