Favoriser le travail de deuil des soignants par la construction de récits de fin de vie en unité de soins de longue durée

An experiment was conducted over six months in a geriatric long-term care facility to help staff cope with mourning issues. A semi-structured discussion group was created to share end-of-life narratives following deaths, backed up by psychoanalytic theory to create a framework and analyse the corpus of texts thus produced. The results point to the need to distinguish the threshold to the accompaniment of the end-of-life from end-of-life care itself. They also highlighted the importance of providing venues enabling subjects relating to death to be broached in facilities that are particularly exposed to the death of inmates.