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El Impacto De Los Lazos Familiares En La Salud Física, Emocional Y Espiritual En Cuidados Paliativos: Un Estudio De La Clínica Familia, Max Meyerhoff Oct 2015

El Impacto De Los Lazos Familiares En La Salud Física, Emocional Y Espiritual En Cuidados Paliativos: Un Estudio De La Clínica Familia, Max Meyerhoff

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Research Question: How do Chilean family ties impact the physical, emotional and spiritual health of patients in a palliative care facility?

Objective: Understand the role that the tight-knit Chilean family structure plays during the palliative care process and how these family ties affect the physical, emotional and spiritual well being of the patient.

Background: Chile has recently gone through an epidemiological transition. Due to improved access to primary care fewer people are dying from infectious diseases. However, because they are now living longer, more Chileans are now dying from slow-acting noncommunicable diseases. Due to these slower acting …