By Kiran Bharadwaj | Project Leader
Palliative Care takes an interdisciplinary team approach to care for people during life-limiting, chronic, or terminal diagnosis, when patients and their loved ones are challenged physically and emotionally. Hence, spirituality or the way we make meaning of challenges, the way we shape our identity and the way we cope by connecting to the transpersonal and the transcendent is a crucial part of palliative care.
We bring a new monthly series, The Intersection of Spiritual Care and Palliative to share how different spiritual and clinical palliative care team members relate to the concept of spirituality and how they see spiritual care and palliative care as interconnected to make a difference in people’s lives and to forge healing. A chaplain from the US writes a commentary on the first set of interviews.
I applaud the Network for doing this series. This chaplain makes some excellent points about the necessity of care of the spirit in palliative care and the differences between spiritual care and religious care. Indeed no one should claim they are doing whole person care or palliative care if they do not include spiritual care.Dedicated volunteers take time to connect with spiritual and clinical palliative care team members from around the world, conduct interviews and share them on Palliative Care Network. Your support allows us to bring new perspectives to the international Palliative Care Network audience. Download the first two interviews, a physician from Croatia and chaplain from the USA, to understand how spiritual care is essential to palliative care.
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