Palliative care, care ethics, family relationships, caregiver patient relationship, emotional support, medical ethics, family history, healthcare communication
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This article discusses the importance of fairness in exchanges between caregivers, patients, and families in palliative care situations, highlighting the complexity of care ethics.
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[...] Indeed, the relationship between families and caregivers is often seen by families as insufficient insofar as communication, according to the authors, remains often parasited. In fact, medical ethics, which dictates that information must first be aimed at with the patient's consent, reinforces the complexity of the relationship and the caregiver's management in the case of a close relative. The authors, in this sense, recall that the lack of learning in the care system crystallizes an emotional experience that can sometimes be complex to manage. Hence, the denial of affects can be a strategy not to disrupt the caregiver-patient relationship. [...]
[...] In fact, if we want to think about the care of a close patient, it remains crucial to found the care ethics on the relationship that integrates the patient and their relatives. Being considered as powerful modifier of context' (Vanotti, 2009), the disease irreparably changes the relationship between all the actors of care. By taking the case of two situations, the two authors show how the modifications of the context occur in the nurse-patient relationship and how the family's response to the disease will crystallize the ethics of the nurse's practice. [...]
[...] InfoKara, Family Care or with the Family? - Matthias Vannotti and Marco Vannotti (2009) - Managing Emotions in Patient Care Choice of the Article : Vannotti, M. & Vannotti, M. (2009). Family Care or with the Family? InfoKara 141-146. As the authors of the article state: 'It is essential to integrate the family environment, as it is the place where a significant part of the suffering related to the disease is propagated and an essential horizon of resources for the patient'. [...]
