Principles of Palliative Care
Over the last two decades, palliative care for children
has evolved as specialized service delivery
which encompasses the total care of children
with life-limiting diseases, regardless of outcome
[ 3 , 4 ]. An incurable brain tumor diagnosis affects
not only the child but all members of the family.
For this reason, events and experiences throughout
the child’s course of illness and at EOL are
remembered and highly relevant to familycentered
care. Thus, palliative care is applicable
from the time of diagnosis, through active and
curative treatment, during the period of EOL, and
afterwards in the initial phases of family grief
and bereavement [ 3 ].