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Importance of Family-Centred Care to Palliative Medicine
David W. Kissane*, Centre for Palliative Care (St Vincent's Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute), University of Melbourne, Australia
The family is inevitably involved in care-provision when one of its number suffers from a progressive and life-threatening illness such as advanced cancer. Distress reverberates throughout the family, with moderate rates of psycho-social morbidity, including up to one third of partners and one quarter of adult children (1-3). There has been growing awareness over recent years of the importance of a family-centred model of care to fully meet the needs of patients and families involved with palliative care services and, moreover, maintain continuity of support into bereavement (4).
To achieve this, we need both conceptual and pragmatic methods of classifying
families to guide our efforts at intervention. Historically, one approach has
been to conceptualize families in terms
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