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“PREPARE ME” Interventions and the Quality of Life Advance Progressive Cancer
Patients.
Presence – being with another person during the times of need. This includes
therapeutic communication, active listening, and touch.
Reminisce Therapy – recall of past experiences, feelings and thoughts to facilitate
adaptation to present circumstances.
Prayer
Relaxation-Breathing – techniques to encourage and elicit relaxation for the purpose
of decreasing undesirable signs and symptoms such as pain, muscle tension, and
anxiety.
Meditation – encourages an elicit form of relaxation for the purpose of altering
patient’s level of awareness by focusing on an image or thought to facilitate inner
sight which helps establish connection and relationship with God. It may be done
through the use of music and other relaxation techniques.
Values Clarification – assisting another individual to clarify his own values about
health and illness in order to facilitate effective decision making skills. Through this,
the patient develops an open mind that will facilitate acceptance of disease state or
may help deepen or enhance values. The process of values clarification helps one
become internally consistent by achieving closer between what we do and what we
feel.