Fundamental mental health care in palliative care
Camcel’s mental health team continues to develop actions both in the internal one- action of its officials- as an externally in the coverage that its users specifically are provided.
In the Palliative Care Unit, which is turning two years in these days, the attention of this aspect of human health has a fundamental importance.
“All professionals who work in Camcel have our activities, our work, and as far as mental health, addresses the different areas, we are in different jobs, different topics. That is a training issue, a profile issue and that is marked many times by the needs that the population has. We try to live up to help” expressed the Psychologist Marcos Caballero.
“Being part of the institution’s palliative care unit is a job that has its complexities due to the high anxiety load it generates in all, but it also has its part that somehow all of us who work in palliatives highlight that it is, in most cases, connect with the human highlighted.
“It is an area where you work with the patient, with the family, so it is gratifying to return something to them, help them in something, in those hard moments” He pointed out.
Caballero said that the concept of palliative care is broader than in its beginnings. “Before it was a kind of synonym of high terminal, today that is not so, it has expanded to different pathologies. That has made more people cover, in other contexts, therefore, there are also more work” held.
“Moreover, we have patients who have been discharged in palliative care. There are few, but there are” The member of Camcel’s mental health team highlighted.
More demand for professionals
Each time users request more professionals in the area of mental health. “The good thing about this is that there is more demand, before there was no. We reached a point that from Camcel we are always trying to think to optimize as much as possible access, minimize the delays in waiting times, but we see that there is much more demand. Before it was not consulted so much and that is a good indicator” Marcos Caballero highlighted.
This paradigm change is very noticeable at the gender level. “We the men who were able to consulted less or nothing and now there is a very significant increase” assured.
In age strips, there is a greater predisposition to consult for issues related to mental health in new generations, beyond adult ages, some myths are being demolished. “It is striking as old people too. Many times the person loses that initial fear, that resistance that we all have, especially when we were raised in another way where that label was so common that psychiatry and psychology was not for everyone. We worked a lot that with people, especially inside Camcel too, that after one gives the opportunity to know the spaces, to try to talk about things that we all have in our world. He realizes that need. The psychologist Marcos Caballero, a member of Camcel’s mental health team.
