Social work: Palliative care and sense of life for death

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to identify what are the disciplinary functions of professionals in social work against terminal illnesses and their process with the family patient and / or main caregiver. Because there is a lack of knowledge 

about the role of the social worker in this field of action, this research is carried out regarding the work of professionals in Social Work in front of the CPs determining the professional and human help in the process of death to make it more bearable by healing souls. In the same way, it will help the professional who is exercising the different areas, to understand in more detail what this whole process is about, for what it is, because it is and to understand the incidence of the patient who encounters a terminal disease in the last stage of his life, he will implicitly say where the course of his illness goes, his family and his caregiver. This research is based on a reflection and deep analysis in the field of care for patients receiving CP. The methodological development was carried out through the qualitative model, the constructionist paradigm and the hermeneutical historical approach, with which it seeks to know the reality from the starting point to be able to dimension the problem establish priorities and propose a strategy of aid responding to the needs psychological, social and spiritual that this process entails through a typified attention where only the patient's affectations matter.