In a child psychiatry unit, where it is said that men are reassuring and women are mothering, the group experience of carers on the function of their gender in child care was explored. Gender is relevant to institutional care, but creates a divide. Representations focus on fear, sexuality, violence and fragility. Caregivers, ambivalent about neutralising gender, suffer from representations of what it does to children and to the institution.

As peer support becomes more professional, it is becoming increasingly recognised and diversified. When a mental health patient-trainer works with psychiatric carers, the latter gain a better understanding of the patient\'s point of view. In addition, valuing their experiential knowledge can support peer helpers in their recovery. However, we mustn\'t forget that these are fragile people and that their past can come back to haunt them if they are not careful. Testimonial.

Refusal of care is a frequent occurrence in geriatric medicine, especially among people with neurocognitive diseases, particularly in the advanced stages. These refusals of care are a daily burden, not only for the patients themselves, but also for their carers and caregivers. Although they can be prevented, the absence of a single, simple strategy for overcoming them is a real challenge for professionals and carers alike. Their management calls for an approach that is essentially non-pharmacological, always interdisciplinary, humanistic and ethically grounded.

Mobile emergency and resuscitation teams are confronted with death on a daily basis. In the home, the management of a death is complex. It raises ethical questions and sometimes destabilizes personal or collective values. Our single-center qualitative survey, conducted over a one-month period (2022), questioned 64/154 caregivers about the moral burden and challenges of such situations. The consequences of operational experience are discussed: time, fatigue, emotions and training. The quality of presence is an alternative to the success or failure of cardiac arrest care at home.

Caregivers, like all working people, can encounter difficulties in the course of their professional activities. These difficulties, compounded by the particularities of caregiving practice, can lead to situations of isolation, overwork, exhaustion, disagreement and even ethical dilemmas in complex situations. Thadeo\'s free listening service offers support to caregivers who need it.

The ubiquitous presence of the elderly in care services raises questions about the evolution and limits of new techniques and technologies in the care relationship. We carried out a cross-sectional study in a geriatric ward, using parallel patient and carer questionnaires to assess how each felt about innovations, analyze their opportunities and evaluate their dangers in care provision.

Joy, fear, disgust, anger, sadness, surprise, emotions are fleeting and natural affects that catch us off guard. Care, as a face-to-face encounter with others, in a sometimes difficult context of serious or chronic pathologies, can become a place of affectivity, all the more so as care crosses the barriers of bodily intimacy. What to do with one\'s emotions in care?

Accompanying death is part of the daily life of intensive care workers. However, far from being a trivial experience, it mobilizes the teams emotionally and requires them to constantly adjust in order to carry out their mission of care for the patient and his or her loved ones. How do nurses and orderlies deal with end-of-life care and the particularities of death in an intensive care unit?

Faced with the unthinkable of death, caregivers mobilize their psychological defenses, but sometimes these are overwhelmed. The impact of a patient\'s death depends on the patient\'s singularity, the resonance of his or her history, and the way he or she was cared for. Confronted with deaths without being able to represent them, professionals can be overwhelmed, experience anxiety and depression, or reach professional exhaustion. The creation of collective spaces to represent the death of patients allows for the co-construction of meaning and the mobilization of resources.

The impact of the end of life and death on caregivers is not well known by institutions and by the professionals themselves. However, they are all confronted at some point with the death of one of their patients, which can lead to psychological trauma. There are, of course, associated personal and professional factors that can lead to anxiety, depression, burnout and even post-traumatic stress. The psychosocial consequences are underestimated, both for the caregiver and for the functioning of the teams, departments and hospitals (or practices), as well as for the quality of patient care. It is time to break the taboo of the impact of the end of life and death on health professionals, to bring them to work together on this issue and to encourage institutions to get involved.