You can reduce depression in palliative care mourners?

It can be a challenge to ensure good quality of life than the life of a person comes to an end. The knowledge that death is imminent, and the realization that it is inevitable-understandable brings intense anxiety and fear for the person who is ill and people who love it.

Palliative care improves the quality of life in extreme circumstances of the last days of a person. You can enable the dying to spend this time in peace, surrounded by family and friends, and little pain. But the role of palliative care goes beyond palliative care. For example, these programs can:

*    Provide necessary medicines, medical supplies and equipment.
*    Teach family members how to care for the person who is ill.
*    Support the dying person as he deals with emotional and spiritual aspects of death.
*    Provide support and advice to friends to relieve pain associated with the loss (mourning) and family.

 Research confirms what many people intuitively know. Family members are likely to suffer from major depression after the loss of a loved one. This is especially true when death occurs in a hospital in the middle of an aggressive medical treatment.

A recent study published in Archives of Internal Medicine online today examined whether palliative care reduces the severity of bereavement-related depression in people who have recently lost a spouse. Although researchers do not see any difference between spouses whose partners were enrolled in hospice and how these are not major depression was less common among spouses who received support from a hospice program.

What this study does suggest is that palliative care should not end when the patient dies. In fact, Medicare requires organizations to provide palliative care services for families mourning until one year after death. However, there is little respect for this obligation. If you have a loved one in a hospital, make sure the agency offers the services they should.

The only palliative care, even with a large loss of loved ones, do not prevent or cure major depression. Even when activated by a painful loss, depression should be treated (usually with a combination of psychotherapy and medication). An additional feature to the hospice after death is to ensure that the spouse or another family member to get the mental health services they need.