[Identify the needs of the patient or resident]

Patients, residents, all have needs linked to their situation. Identifying them makes it possible to increase their physical or psychological comfort and thus improve the quality of the caregiver-patient relationship. This objective requires increased attention, particularly towards requests, behaviors, and emotions.

[The realities of hunger and thirst at the end of life]

Questions about nutrition and hydration are common in the context of the end of life. By end of life, we mean the terminal palliative phase, a particular period of organic fragility. These questions pose difficulties, insofar as the act of eating and drinking as a vital act has a symbolic, cultural and social dimension. They must be clarified with family members or even caregivers who are not familiar with these types of care.

[The use of a derivative of hypnosis in care]

Polymedication leads to undesirable effects that are often deleterious for elderly people with comorbidities. Complementary non-medicinal approaches should be favored to help patients better control their pain, thus increasing their comfort and autonomy.

[Preventive approach of oral care for comfort and hydration]

The risk of deterioration of oral health is increased in the palliative phase of a disease due to the drying out of the oral mucosa by the treatments. Weakened, the patient drinks and eats little, or not at all. Caregivers therefore need to take over the patient's oral care to ensure hygiene and comfort. As a preventive approach, providing mouth care for hydratation and comfort associated with oral hygiene are essentials.

[A universal control unit for people with disabilities]

Home automation in the area of disability is a rapidly developing field. A hospital rehabilitation unit and a university institute of technology have formed an experimental partnership with the aim of improving patient care management. This collaboration resulted in the development of a control interface in a hospital room equipped with certain home automation systems, opening up perspectives for the return home of patients with a disability.

[Placement of a portacath under hypnosis]

The portacath reflects the cancer and its future treatments. Its insertion causes high levels of anxiety for patient. Thanks to medical hypnosis, he can use its internal resources to help them manage the situation and the symptoms he feels.