Home Care for the Dying Child

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Abstract
Hope must be threaded throughout the course of a child's terminal illness. However, it must change in its facets. At the time of diagnosis there is hope that child will beat the odds, the cruel, cold statistics. At that time, the hope is that medical technology, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, treatments, procedures, and other avenues appropriate for the diagnosis will bring the elusive cure or remission. When that hope is taken away, the hope is then centered on palliative care, moving toward the hope that the child will die with dignity, without pain either to the child or the significant others surviving with subsequent grief.

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