New complex situations in pediatric palliative care, new benchmarks?

The world of healthcare must adapt to our constantly changing modern world: the sometimes utopian progress promised by innovative therapies, global crisis situations generating the displacement of entire populations, transformations in the traditional family model, and the increasing precariousness of many families... Whether familial, socio-cultural, spiritual, medical, financial, or all of these at once, complexity invites itself into palliative care on a daily basis. More and more often, we are witness to the way in which this complexity can distort our thinking, inhibit our creativity, so much so that it has the power to freeze therapeutic projects or weigh down care trajectories, as much for the children and their families as for the professionals themselves. This complexity is not exclusive to palliative care; it cuts across all fields of care. But in the field of palliative care, more than ever before, this complexity must not become a constraint that screens out the child in a palliative situation, preventing us from thinking about the very essence of our work: questions of life and death. The stakes are high: to offer the child a quality palliative project, while taking into account the complex factors specific to his or her singularity.

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