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The EPEC-O Project Education in Palliative and End-of-life Care - Oncology

TM. The EPEC-O Project Education in Palliative and End-of-life Care - Oncology. The EPEC ™ -O Curriculum is produced by the EPEC TM Project with major funding provided by NCI, with supplemental funding provided by the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

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The EPEC-O Project Education in Palliative and End-of-life Care - Oncology

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  1. TM The EPEC-O Project Education in Palliative and End-of-life Care - Oncology The EPEC™-O Curriculum is produced by the EPECTM Project with major funding provided by NCI, with supplemental funding provided by the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

  2. EPEC - Oncology Education in Palliative and End-of-life Care - Oncology Module 4 Loss, Grief, and Bereavement

  3. Objectives • Define loss, grief, and bereavement. • Facilitate creative adaptation to losses. • Screen for and assess grief reactions. • Manage reactions to loss. • Anxiety, depression • Follow through with bereaved family.

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  5. Loss, grief… • Patients and family face illness-related losses: • Sense of future • Functional capacities • Relationships

  6. … Loss, grief • Reactions to loss are strong. • Coping strategies vary: • Helpful • Destructive

  7. Patient losses & adaptation . . . • Losses in all dimensions • Repeated and severe • Adaptation with declining resources • Difficult but possible

  8. . . . Patient losses & adaptation . . . • Understanding, accepting loss • Disengagement and reflection • Creative adaptation, experimentation • Reintegration

  9. . . . Patient losses & adaptation • Sense of future • Function • Self-image • Social role • Relationships • Material matters

  10. Roles • Sick role • Caregiver role • Dying role • Bereaved and successor roles

  11. Family losses & adaptation • Replace patient’s lost capacities • Roles and relationships change • Entails losses and adaptations • Patient depends on family adaptation

  12. Grief process • A response to loss • Part of the healing process • Multidimensional • A process • Tasks of grieving

  13. Normal grief • Physical • Hollowness in stomach, tightness in chest, heart palpitations • Emotional • Numbness, relief, sadness, fear, anger, guilt • Cognitive • Disbelief, confusion, inability to concentrate

  14. Tasks of grief • Acceptance of the reality • Experience the pain of loss • Adjust • Transfer emotional investments Worden JW. SeminOncol. 1985.

  15. Benchmarks of resolution • Talk about loss without fresh feelings • Invest in new relationships, roles • Without disabling guilt • Without feeling disloyal

  16. Types of grief • Masked (suppression) • Delayed (displacement) • Many forms • Less emotion may be normal • Resilience may be higher than expected Worden JW. SeminOncol. 1985.

  17. Assessment of grief • Repeated assessments • Anticipated, actual losses • Emotional responses • Coping strategies • Role of religion • Interdisciplinary team assessment, monitoring

  18. Prognosis for grief • Normal grief 6 mo – several years • Child, spouse, parent, other • Mode of death • Social and cultural context • Depression, complicated grief • History of depression, stress • Personality

  19. Evolution of grief process • Denial • Anger • Bargaining • Depression • Acceptance Kubler-Ross

  20. Grief vs. Depression • Loss recognizable, current • Labile mood, behavior; variable waking • No history of depression • Preoccupied with loss, confusion • Responsive to others • Loss not recognizable • Consistently low mood, early waking • History of depression • Preoccupied with self, self-punative, self-directed anger • Little response to others Cook AS, Dworkin DS. 1992.

  21. Grief management • If reactions, coping strategies appropriate: • Monitor • Support • Counseling • Rituals • If inappropriate, potentially harmful • Rapid, skilled assessment, intervention

  22. Support during grief • Time and presence • Education about grief, adaptation • Affirm normal range of responses • Acknowledge, encourage • Counseling

  23. Interventions for depression • Antidepressants • Anxiolytics • Psychotherapy • Supportive • Cognitive-behavioral • Combination medication and psychotherapeutic • Consultation if suicidal

  24. Summary • Illness-related losses • Grief and creative adaptation • Grief of bereavement • Depression • Supportive interventions • Consultation for suicidal ideation

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