title: [Playing games to help deal with the end of life].
abstract: Allowing a child to play until the end of his/her life, such is the objective which a paediatric nursing team has set itself The games must enable the child and his family to organise psychologically the emotional chaos provoked by impending death. They question and provide an answer to an intolerable situation--the end of a child's life.
authors.affiliation: Service d'hospitalisation à domicile, Fondation de la Croix Saint-Simon, Paris. lefevre.viviane@neuf.fr
authors.forename: Viviane
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lefèvre
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009746:Nursing, Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010989:Play Therapy / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000458:organization & administration*