PALLIATIVE CARE AT HOME PROVIDED BY THE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE TEAM

Abstract

Introduction: Introduction: Palliative care aims to alleviate human suffering with the adoption of a correct assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, whether physical, psychosocial and spiritual, based on early identification. Due to the substantial increase in the number of elderly people and the prevalence of non-communicable chronic degenerative diseases, this care has been increasingly necessary, also developed by Primary Health Care (PHC). It is known that both palliative care and PHC have teamwork as the basis of care. Objective: To synthesize the results of studies on the importance of palliative care at home provided by the Primary Health Care team. Methodology: Integrative literature review. The search for studies was performed on LILACS, SCIELO and Medline platforms. Studies in English and Portuguese, with a publication date of the last six years, were included. Results: Regarding the characterization of the analyzed articles, two (28.5%) were published in 2016, two (28.5%) were published in 2019, 1 in 2021 (14.5%) and two (28.5%) were published in 2022. Among the studies, none were published in specific journals for palliative care. Final Considerations: We know that countless patients die before receiving palliative care and of these many, before finitude, suffer from the disease without the minimum quality of life and suffering in the face of the situation. Thus, it is necessary to think and reflect on the PC, which should be available as close as possible to the patient, that is, in Primary Health Care.