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WONCA APR Conference 2019 » Workshop
[WS3-24] How to deal with cultural and religious differences in Palliative Care: A family- oriented approach with a 10- year experience.year experience.
Fri. May 17, 2019 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM Room 10 (2F Room J)
Organizer: Pedro Subtil de Paula(SOBRAMFA – Medical Education and Humanism, Brazil)
Facilitator: Helia Miyoko Umebayashi Hirose(Hospital e Maternidade São Cristóvão, Brazil), Shin Yoshida(Iizuka Hospital and Kaita Hospital- Dept. Of General Practice, Japan)
Co-author: Helia Miyoko Umebayashi Hirose(Hospital e Maternidade São Cristóvão, Brazil), Marco Aurelio Janaudis(SOBRAMFA – Medical Education and Humanism, Brazil)
INTRODUCTION: Palliative care demands open mind and heart for all those who take care of persons facing terminal illness. Cultural and religious background plays an essential role on those questions. On that context, ignoring the family is agreat mistake on our 10- year experience on palliative care on a private hospital in São Paulo - Brazil.
We will mention the following religious systems: Catholic and Protestant Christianism, Buddism, Xyntoism, Islam and Kardencist Spiritism.
OBJECTIVES: 1) To Highlight the importance of keeping open-hearted and open-minded and an active listening of the context of the patient, considering the complex patient+family as the real whole patient that has to be heard and to be taken care of.
2) To give brief essential data about the concepts of the main religious systems related to death.
STRUCTURE: The workshop will be done in 3 phases:
1) Brief explanation: cultural diversity in palliative and primary care. At this moment we will also collect some difficulties experienced by the audience on their practice. 15’.
2) A quiz about the main religions and pallitive care will be distributed to the participants. 10’.
3) We will give the results of the quiz and comment about the importance of knowing those concepts on dialoging to the complex patient+family. 10’.
Conclusion: Open for questions and conclusion summarizing. 10’.