Palliative care in the perception of families with patients oncology surgery

Results: 66.7% of people recognized the hospice as comprehensive care for the terminally ill patient; 74.9% of them had positive associations with the hospice; 82.4% of people believed that death was a natural phenomenon; 75.2% were against euthanasia; according to 89.8%, the information provided to the family in a hospice should be comprehensive; support in the hospice should be provided mainly by a permanent clergyman (76.4%) and people after the loss of a loved one (65.4%); the most desirable religious practices in the hospice were the mass (86.7%), rosary prayer (81.6%), confession (81.2%) and sacraments (81.2%); in the hospice showing a lot of kindness, smile and courtesy on the part of the hospice staff to patients (92.5%) and their families (88.5%); the patient should have unlimited access to a clergyman of his religion (98.8%), a psychologist (98.1%) and a physiotherapist (94.6%) in a hospice; according to 87.3% of patients' family members, the society does not pay much attention to palliative care; problems in hospice care result from the growing number of patients with chronic diseases (96.7%) and the lack of public knowledge about palliative care (92.7%); improvement of the quality of medical care in hospices would be achieved by an increase in the number of staff (87.4%) and an increase in the number of beds (82.4%). [...]in this part of the world, in Caesarea Cappadocia, Bishop Basil the Great founded the "City of Mercy", a center he called xenochodium (hospice), intended for the homeless, wanderers, and the sick [1]. [...]the 18th century, the dominant view was that the hospital was to serve all the poor, which was related to the Christian idea of mercy, and a more appropriate term for hospitals at that time was the term orphanage. According to Doboszyńska [8], "palliative care is active, comprehensive care for patients whose disease is not amenable to effective causal treatment. According to 65.6% of respondents, the hospice is a place for people suffering from an incurable disease, regardless of diagnosis, a place for people who have cancer only - 59.2% of respondents, only for patients just before death - 53.2%, and 6.7% had no opinion on this point.