Douleur, personne âgée et fin de vie : une nécessaire approche humaine et scientifique

Pain with the elderly in end of life presents epidemiological, physiopathological, pharmacological and ethical specificities, imposing a necessary complementarity between medicinal and non-medicinal methods, self and hetero-assessment, scientific and human attitude. A real care should call into question some prejudices and golden rules, combining how to do and how to be.