2024
DOI: 10.3390/cancers16020342
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Integration of Psychosocial Theory into Palliative Care: Implications for Care Planning and Early Palliative Care

Thomas V. Merluzzi,
Natalia Salamanca-Balen,
Errol J. Philip
et al.

Abstract: Palliative care improves patients’ symptoms, quality of life and family satisfaction with caregiving, reduces hospital admissions and promotes alignment of medical care with the patient’s needs and goals. This article proposes the utility of integrating three psychosocial theories into standard palliative care with implications for care planning, early palliative care and optimizing quality of life. First, Control Theory focuses on the complex juxtaposition of promoting agency/empowerment in patients and carer… Show more

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