O Suporte à Família em Cuidados Paliativos / Family Support in Palliative Care

It makes no sense to talk about palliative care without referencing a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary team approach comprising different professionals from different fields, supporting the patient and family (TWYCROSS, 2003). This is our challenge: the challenge to study the psychosocial world of palliative patients and their families, where health care are considered active and centered on the human being. We intend in this paper to contribute to the knowledge of the families in the context of terminal illness using the systemic research done in this area and our empirical knowledge, while researchers and practitioners in their daily work with patients and families in higher distress.