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May 2017 List
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Understanding Death With Limited Experience In Life: Dying Children's And Adolescents' Understanding Of Their Own Terminal Illness And Death
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Current Opinion In Supportive And Palliative Care
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2015
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Adolescent; Attitude To Death; Child; Communication; Fear; Humans; Palliative Care/organization & Administration; Palliative Care/psychology; Professional-family Relations; Prognosis; Terminal Care/organization & Administration; Terminal Care/psychology; Terminally Ill/legislation & Jurisprudence; Terminally Ill/psychology; Time Factors
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Bates Alan T; Kearney Julia A
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: An up-to-date summary of the literature on children's and adolescents' understanding of their own terminal illness and death. RECENT FINDINGS: Clinicians still find it difficult to speak with pediatric patients about death even though guidelines for facilitating communication on the topic exist. As a result, pediatric patients are less likely to develop a clear understanding of their illness and there is a disconnect between clinicians and parents about prognosis, even when clinicians have concluded there is no longer possibility for cure. Insufficient communication and poor understanding may increase the risk of patients feeling isolated, mistrustful and anxious, and deprive them of a role model who can communicate about painful issues or share difficult feelings. Despite these complexities, young people often show remarkable resiliency in the face of death and want to get the most out of the remaining time they have. SUMMARY: In addition to these most recent findings, this review examines the challenges in researching this topic, obstacles to patients receiving information about prognosis, and how physical symptoms affect patients' ability to develop an understanding. It also reviews sources of insight into pediatric patients' understanding including the development of concepts of death, fears about their own death, legal interpretations of what patients understand, and how terminally ill young people continue to treasure life. It concludes by addressing ways clinicians can use the knowledge we have to communicate well with dying children and adolescents and their families.
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10.1097/SPC.0000000000000118
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2015
Adolescent
Attitude To Death
Bates Alan T
Child
Communication
Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care
Fear
Humans
Kearney Julia A
May 2017 List
Palliative Care/organization & Administration
Palliative Care/psychology
Professional-family Relations
Prognosis
Terminal Care/organization & Administration
Terminal Care/psychology
Terminally Ill/legislation & jurisprudence
Terminally Ill/psychology
Time Factors