Patient Care

Caring for patients with life threatening diseases in progressing with poor prognosis, who are dealing with symptoms of discomfort and have no access to palliative care treatment.

Education

Promote education in palliative care so that pain and other symptoms of suffering in the end of life stage may be treated adequately.
The graduation of health care professionals (doctors, nurses, psychologists, physical therapist and others) does not contemplate the human being we will care for in its essence. In college, or continuing education there is no place for life reflections, death and dying, quality of life, nevertheless those are the day- by -day questions we face in our profession.

Consultation

Promotes advisory assistance to the implementation and coaching of multidisciplinary teams in hospitals and other health care services that plan on having palliative care.

Caring for the caregiver

Casa do Cuidar offers a special program for families, caregivers and health care professionals who are working directly with patients in palliative care.
In order to give good care to others we have first, take care of ourselves, attending to our needs and healing our pains. This is the healthiest way to continue caring of others. It is fundamental for palliative care teams to be aware of emotional and physical needs in order not to somatize or  go under burn out. Caregivers´nature is always giving, sometimes getting to the point of exhaustion.

Finitude Project

Doctors and residents attend to meetings coordinated by a doctor and a psychologist, with the purpose of discussing our own limitations in the face of the inevitability of death, and the difficulties about facing our own passage.

How do we do it?

Patients can set appointments with the team members or can be seen in a home care basis.
Health care professionals can be assisted in their own work setting, or set appointments with professionals linked to Casa Do Cuidar
Workshops and continued education can be offered to the client in his working space. The courses are programmed according to the health care team involved, e.g.: multidisciplinary, speech therapists, physical therapists, social workers, psychologists, doctors, etc.