Hospice care for the child with AIDS |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, TX, 77204, United States;2. Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcomb Blvd. Houston, Texas, 77030, United States;3. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stony Brook University, 101 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY, United States;4. Department of Psychology, University of Miami, 5665 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Coral Gables, FL, 33124, United States;5. Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1 Bowdoin Square, Suite 701, Boston Ma, 02114, United States |
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| Abstract: | Hospice care was established to provide palliative (i.e., noncurative) services for the dying and their families. The advent of the AIDS epidemic has posed a challenge to hospice care, particularly for the child dying of the disease, and has adapted to modified palliative services. Parents, with a child dying of AIDS, must deal with many issues of disclosing the disease status to the child, coping with the emotions of losing a child, and when and where to incorporate hospice services into the dying process. Optimizing home based hospice care involves; (1) Nutritional management, (2) Prevention of opportunistic infections, (3) Pain management, and (4) Protection of Non-HIV positive members of hospice care. For the dying, hospice strives to achieve a peaceful death and provide supportive intervention for the survivors. |
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