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jmagnetti@calvaryhospital.org
By telephone survey we conducted the situation entering the role of physiotherapist in helping the
Phone terminally patient in central-southern Italy is not so criticises.
The culture of physiotherapy in palliative care is gaining more and more its place in
multidisciplinary team working.
Mobile phone There are many structures especially at the central Italy where patients are monitored at home
and in hospice and they do therapies of all kinds, from respiratory physiotherapy to lymph
drainage, kinesitherapy to walking training, etc..
The work possibilities are with contracts of indefinite duration for the most fortunate, otherwise
Please underline the most there are contracts of cooperation or advice, performance contracts, this contractual situation
appropriate category for your varies by type of structure where you are.
abstract The image of physiotherapist as a masseur is gradually disappearing because there are more
requests from patients wanting to move, to regain the autonomy that it has been denied for some
• Pain and other symptoms
time by disease and bad information.
• Palliative care for cancer patients
• Pain