Spirituality, health care, and bioethics | Semantic Scholar

This chapter highlighted the main spiritual needs of the patient with an incurable chronic disease, as well as those of their family caregivers, and the main limitations of spiritual care during end-of-life.

What constitutes successful spiritual care is clarified by identifying its key components and major challenges and recommendations are made for ethically mindful, comprehensive spiritual care and potential next steps including structural changes that prioritize compassion and empathy in medicine are considered.

There is mounting evidence that religious cognitions and behaviors can offer effective resources for dealing with stress and participation in religious communities may promote mental and physical well-being by regulating health-related behaviors in ways that decrease the risks of diseases.

The biopsychosocial model is extended to include the spiritual dimension, discussing some ways in which this perspective might affect the authors' thinking about disease and health care.

The number of aged persons who are less reticent to demand discussion of their overall needs as well as the hospice movement itself has had the effect of bringing the spiritual back into consideration by health-care professionals.