Family and pain Chronic neoplastic

Abstract

The participation of the family in the management of the pain of the terminal patient is supported by the reaction that the patient has to his or her disease and by the suffering that the loss of a loved one generates. Facing the process of death of one of its members demands important changes in the family's life and their future plans; which added to feelings of anxiety , fear, desperation,and impotence, unleashing a crisis that must be immediately responded to, in order to avoid the invasion of difficulties and confusion in the family.

The intervention in the palliative phase is an aproximation to the family in crisis that includes a change of paradigm, a new construction of knowledge and of the methods of action, so they can be realized in a rapid, flexible and varied way, at the same pace that the disease process demands.