Conceptualization and assessment of family caregivers` anticipatory grief in palliative care

Introduction: In cancer end-of-life trajectory, the family caregiver (FC) faces the patient´s successive functional losses and the perspective of imminent death, thus giving rise to a grief response that precedes the actual loss. Despite being emotionally painful, the experience of Anticipatory Grie...

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Main Author: Coelho, Alexandra (author)
Format: doctoralThesis
Language:eng
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/48493
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/48493