Gloria’s Reviews > When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families > Status Update

"Whether the issue is insensitivity to feelings and emotions, inattention to pain or other symptoms, or inadequate information, children and families suffer when they encounter pediatricians and other professionals are ill-prepared to offer them competent, consistent, and compassionate palliative, end-of-life, and bereavement care."

"One goal of palliative and end-of-life care is to minimize avoidable conflicts related to poor communication, cultural misunderstandings, deficient clinical care, and approaches to decision making that fail to assure families that they and the health care team are doing their best for the child."

"The prevention and relief of suffering - physical, emotional, and spiritual - is a core mission of palliative care."

"Their families accompany them and then follow their own pathways of grief beyond the child's death, even to the end of their own lives."