Food Is Love: Partnering With Families to Provide Nourishment at the End of Life

This is an article about nutrition during the palliative care period. I think the authors summarize this best, “Within the quintessentially human belief that food is love, we discovered a unique opportunity to offer a family in crisis a few concrete tools with which to honor and affirm their roles and responsibilities as primary caretakers and good parents. By listening and aligning our medical management with the values and goals most important to the family, we identified a path to build trust, ease regret, and accompany them along the painful anticipatory grief journey.