Food is love : partnering with families to provide nourishment at the end of life

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KAYE, Erica C. | KEGEL, Anna | WEBER, Madeline | CARTWRIGHT, Carla | SPRAKER-PERLMAN, Holly | ROBINSON, Giles W. | BAKER, Justin N.

Alonso was a 10-year-old boy with a recurrent, re-fractory brain tumor whose disease progressed through multiple therapies over many years. When no additional cancer-directed options remained, Alonso was admitted tothe hospital for symptom management as he approached the end of his life. Although Alonso was unresponsive and posturing, his family continued to hope desperately for a miracle. As they kept vigil around the bedside of his frail body, praying and waiting, they gradually began to notice—and then fixate on—how the sharp angle of his bones protruded more with each passing day. [1er paragraphe]

http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/JCO.20.00176

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