Leveraging Grief: Involving Bereaved Parents in Pediatric Palliative Oncology Program Planning and Development.

ABSTRACT: As pediatric palliative care (PPC) became a recognized medical specialty, our developing clinical PPC team longitudinally partnered with bereaved parents to understand the care that their children received as they transitioned towards end of life. Families developed Eight Priorities, shared within, to improve care for children with a poor chance of survival based on their experience of losing a child to cancer. In this paper, we delineate the top eight PPC needs from a parent perspective to offer multi-layered, individually tailored resources for patients and families. One of these Eight Priorities noted that bereavement care for the remaining family members is vital for healing after the death of a child to promote meaning making and resilience in bereaved families. Here, we outline the c

SUBMITTER: Spraker-Perlman HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8226717 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature