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With the purpose to design an educational home care program for palliative care directed to informal health keepers for terminal patients at the Iribarren and Palavecino counties Lara, Venezuela a feasibility Project was conducted. The project was divided in three phases: diagnostic phase, feasibility analysis phase, and proposal design. For the first phase an instruments with multiples choices was used in order to know the level of knowledge (LK) about palliative health care. The results showed that 75% of the informal health keepers had a “deficient” LK, mainly about breathing disorders symptoms control; administration of solid medicine, and patients cleaning which is a very important aspect for the patient comfort. Furthermore the educational program is feasible from a institutional, economic, and legal. It is concluded that the application of the educational program will improve the quality of life of terminal patients.

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Published on 01/01/2015

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