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EXPOSITO CONCEPCION, Yaquelín. LA CALIDAD DE VIDA EN LOS CUIDADORES PRIMARIOS DE PACIENTES CON CANCER. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2008, vol.7, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1729-519X.

Terminally ill is probably the term that more frequently raises a crisis in a family, because it produces suffering to the patient and to the family. Continuous health care must be provided by all the Health Care professionals related to the patient, and also by the relatives, to be able to maintain its integrative nature. There are still little investigation about the attention to the terminally ill attended by the family, particularly those aspects related to familiar crisis, therefore the evaluation of the quality of life during this period. The objective of the present work is to make a reflection about from the basis of a bibliographic revision, of the quality of life of the primary health care for the terminally ill.

Palavras-chave : Quality of life; Primary health caregivers; cancer.