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Clinical Investigation

Child And Adolescent Palliative Care Journal

 Paediatric palliative care’ aims to provide care and support for a child or teenager who has a life-limiting illness. Palliative care is sometimes also called supportive care. Palliative care can help to provide control of symptoms. These may be due either to the disease itself, such as cancer. They may also be from the treatment of the disease, such as nausea. Palliative care helps patients and families achieve the best possible quality of life.   Paediatric palliative care is available to any child or young adult with a life limiting illness. This may include for example; conditions which may be present at birth or illness which may develop during childhood or the teenage years. Your child may see a palliative care team from birth or infancy. This may then continue for many years. Other children may not need palliative care until they are older. They may only need palliative care for a short time.   If your child needs palliative care this doesn’t mean that they won’t have any treatment. Sometimes treatment aimed at prolonging life and palliative care may be required at the same time. You will be an important part of this process and the decisions associated with planning the goals of care. You will be given support through this final stage of your child’s illness and their death. You will also be supported after they have died.

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