Abstract
Cancer has a great possibility of cure, however there is a group of patients who can reach the critical stage and no longer respond to conventional therapies, making it impossible to obtain a cure. In such cases, it will be necessary to provide other types of care in order to provide support, information and comfort to patients in the final stage of life and their families, which characterizes Palliative Care. In pediatrics, palliative care is centered on the child and the family. This study aimed to conduct a literature review on the intervention of Occupational Therapy with caregivers of children in Palliative Care, due to childhood and juvenile cancer. We searched for articles that corresponded to the descriptors that could support this study, however the search resulted in only two articles, a factor that made the study turn to a bibliographic search. Despite the reduced number of articles on occupational therapy in caring for children in palliative care, this study made it possible to present the importance of the attention and contribution of Occupational Therapy in caring for caregivers of children in the final stage of life.
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