2020 Volume 32 Issue 2 Pages 118-126
The palliative care system in Japan has been intensively consolidated since 2007, specifically for cancer treatment. During this period, the following core concepts of palliative care have been gradually integrated into cancer management: early identification, impeccable assessment, and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual in patients and their families facing problems associated with life-threatening illness. Consequently, the need for collaboration between psychiatrists has increased. Recently, palliative care for non-cancer diseases, e.g., heart failure, has been focused upon. How can we provide high-quality and cost-effective care service for multifaceted and individual needs? How can we develop effective interprofessional/interdisciplinary collaboration with regional cooperation? A closer collaboration between palliative and psychiatric care is warranted for cancer and non-cancer treatments.
