การดูแลผู้ป่วยระยะสุดท้ายเชิงพุทธบูรณาการ THE END-OF-LIFE CARE ACCORDING TO BUDDHIST INTERGRATION

Abstract

On the concept and methods for the End-of-Life care, It is the principle of both physical and mental care in a mental support to the patient in order to be fully conscious and having a cheerful mind in the last moment before his death. The End-of-Life care according to Buddhist intergration, it is  concepts and methods of caring for End-of-Life care in accordance with Buddhism principles integrated with modern medical principles. Resulting in a holistic approach to Buddhist care in 4 dimensions: the physical dimension, the spiritual dimension, the social dimension and the mental dimension. The caregivers; those are the administrative teams; i.e., doctors, nurses, monks and multidisciplinary team should have a basic benevolence, take care the mind of the patient in cheerful and both physical and mental sound targeting for being full conscious and having the quality of life, in order to be fully conscious, to create life – quality and having a cheerful mind in the last moment before his death. Having passed from this world he will go to the world of heaven or to the Nibbana known as a good death and dignity.