ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the process of rehabilitation for cancer and palliative care patients, and to identify teaching strategies that will enhance the learning of those clinicians delivering rehabilitative care. It looks at rehabilitation in the context of cancer and palliative care services. The chapter also looks at the key issues in the provision of rehabilitative education and the teaching strategies that will assist in the delivery of that education. Living in the face of ongoing life-threatening disease places demands on both personal and professional resources. Support is sometimes required not only to manage the physical repercussions but also to actively take control of the emotional, psychosocial and spiritual dimensions of the illness experience. The chapter looks at the role that education can play in promoting and supporting rehabilitation-focused cancer and palliative care services. The multi-centre breathlessness management study evaluated the effectiveness of education and support for patients experiencing breathlessness secondary to lung cancer.
