Hospice from the Point of View of Synergistic Anthropology: Patients, their Relatives, Workers

Abstract

The article, which is based on a report at the 4th national congress on palliative and hospice care with international participation: “War and us. Palliative care in Ukraine: challenges, risks and prospects,” analyzes the conceptual optics of synergistic anthropology, which, synthesizing existential, psychological and religious aspects of a person living in a terminal situation, allows us to provide an appropriate indicative basis for hospice workers in order to optimize their own resources from funds at the stage of palliative care for the dying person and his relatives. The main conceptual categories here - “extreme situation”, “ontic”, “ontological” and “virtual” levels (types) of a person - we owe to such outstanding thinkers as Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, Sergei Khoruzhy. Taking into account anthropological types of consciousness and family constitutes a system of indicative markers that provide hospice workers (from doctors, nurses and social workers to psychologists and priests) with a basic orientation for applying their own efforts in the extremely complex task of helping a dying person.