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A Focus on Hospice Care Issues: A Call to Action of Professional Counselors in Nigeria
Kay Chinonyelum Nwamaka Onyechi, Anthony U. Okere, Chiedu Eseadi and Mkpoikanke Sunday Otu

Abstract: The expression "hospice care" alludes to an end-of-life care and is an aspect of palliative care. All over the world, there is a rising but strong unanimity on the need for counselors to progressively use their expertise to help people work through the end-of-life phase. Hence, the reason for this study is to raise the awareness of professional counselors in the Nigerian society on the need for their contribution to end-of-life care of their dying clients, a psycho-oncological intervention, otherwise known as hospice care. The study amongst other things uncovered show counselors could ethically play their roles in end-of-life care of terminally ill clients and those who care about them.

How to cite this article
Kay Chinonyelum Nwamaka Onyechi, Anthony U. Okere, Chiedu Eseadi and Mkpoikanke Sunday Otu, 2016. A Focus on Hospice Care Issues: A Call to Action of Professional Counselors in Nigeria. Research Journal of Medical Sciences, 10: 593-595.

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