Psychiatry and HIV hospice care.
Focus
; 10(8): 5-6, 1995 Jul.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11362647
AIDS: Hospice care relies on a variety of approaches to heal the mind and the soul, if not the body. While hospice care has been well developed in the United States and the United Kingdom, it has overlooked the crucial tool of psychiatry in responding to the mental health needs of dying residents. Many of the psychiatrist's roles are being handled by social workers, psychologists, and volunteers who are not trained to provide a deeper understanding of the complex picture of organic brain dysfunction, side effects of medical or psychiatric drugs, and psychiatric effects of opportunistic infections or cancers. Psychiatrists are trained to evaluate both the physical and psychiatric pieces of the whole patient picture, enabling a more precise understanding of the effects of dementia, grief, opportunistic infections, substance abuse, HIV treatment, and psychopharmacologic agents. The Psychiatrists Concerned About AIDS organization is working to overcome the exclusion of psychiatrists from acute and palliative care, and thus, resolve the split between psychiatry and hospice care.^ieng
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Papel do Médico
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Psiquiatria
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Infecções por HIV
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Cuidados Paliativos na Terminalidade da Vida
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
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Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Focus
Assunto da revista:
SINDROME DA IMUNODEFICIENCIA ADQUIRIDA (AIDS)
Ano de publicação:
1995
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos