Holistic care in healthy aging: Caring for the wholly and holy human |
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| Authors: | Lealani Mae Y Acosta E Wesley Ely |
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| Institution: | 1. Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA;2. Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Tennessee Valley Veteran's Affairs Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC), Nashville, Tennessee, USA |
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| Abstract: | Health care should address the holistic gap between health outcomes, spirituality, religion, and humanistic care to optimize patient care. Treating the whole person encompasses both physical and metaphysical elements. Patients want health care professionals to recognize their spiritual and religious preferences, because these matter in their approach to illness, coping, and long-term outcomes. |
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| Keywords: | aging goals of care physician-patient relationship religion spirituality |
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